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United States First World War recruitment poster issued by the U. S. Navy. It features a three quarter portrait of a U.S sailor blowing a bugle as if calling fellow men to arms. It is printed in black and white in an expressive style popluar at the time. Behind the sailor is a dark emotive sky and the outline of a warship is visible in the lower right. The text frames the image top and bottom printed in red outlined in black and both the image and text are set against a bright yellow background. As with many other First World War recruitment posters it appeals directly to the viewers sense of patriotism. The Naval recruitment campaign while managed independently from the Division of Pictorial Publicity by the Navy Recruiting Bureau also utilised the talents of the best American illustrators and artists of the day. The poster campaign was so successful that soon after the War the then Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels said ' Striking posters which aroused patriotism and pictured the opportunity for Service in the War for Democracy and the Freedom of the Seas proved one of the most effective features of our notably successful campaign...'. Milton Herbert Bancroft (1866- 1947) became an Impressionist painter of portraits, landscapes, figures, and murals. He was much influenced by his stay at Giverny, France where he adopted the effects of sun dappled light on figures and landscape. He attended schools in Newton Falls, Massachusetts and Art School in Boston from 1883 to 1886. Afterwards, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, later studying at the Academie Julien in Paris. Bancroft is perhaps best known for his series of World War I posters encouraging enlistment in the U. S. Navy during the war, and this poster, “To Arms” is considered an iconic art piece of Americana. Towards the end of World War I, Bancroft closed his studio in New York, and he went to France with the Y.M.C.A., as one of the chiefs of decoration of the Foyer des Soldats. He traveled the Western Front and produced a series of drawings of war-torn Western Europe.
United States First World War recruitment poster issued by the U. S. Navy. It features a group of 6 marines loading an anti-aircraft gun on board ship. An aeroplane is flying overhead and the U.S flag
United States First World War recruitment poster issued by the U. S. Navy. It features a three quarter portrait of a U.S sailor guiding a crane hosting munitions onto a ship. Behind the sailor are the
United States First World War recruitment poster issued by the U. S. Navy. It features a three quarter portrait of a U.S sailor guiding a crane hosting munitions onto a ship. Behind the sailor are the
First World War United States Navy recruitment poster depicting a sailor holding a flag, with ships in the background. United States Navy operations during the First World War began on April 6 1917, a
British First World War recruitment poster issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (poster No. 8). Issued in 1914 it is representative of the simple text only recruitment posters produced at
United States First World War recruitment poster issued by the U. S. Marine Corp. It features a central image of a group of U.S Marines running into action from landing craft on a beach. The title and