Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Buy Extra Bonds Poster, 1944 |
Object Name |
Poster |
Scope & Content |
Buy Extra Bonds Poster, 1944. Poster in colored pencil in a blue and dark background of the ship named the U.S.S. Dorado riding through the ocean waves with two men from the U.S. Navy on the ship: one with binoculars at the bottom of the poster, and one holding a spotlight with some light colored in yellow flashing towards from the left hand side to the right hand side. At the top left hand corner of the poster, written in a blue colored pencil in bold with medium lettering , the text reads "IN MEMORY / U.S.S. "DORADO"". In the yellow colored light towards the right side of the poster, painted in red and bold with large lettering, the text reads "FIRE AWAY!". Towards the bottom of the poster, on the left hand side, below the man shining a light from the spotlight, written in pencil, the text reads "Schreiber / '44". Next to the text above, in a white square with a black border with a silhouette of a soldier in black in the middle of the white/red background, painted in white and bold, the text reads "5th V WAR / LOAN". The words "th" in "5th" is lowercased, with the "V" in the middle of "5th" and "WAR / LOAN" is disproportionately bigger than the rest of the text in the white/red background in the white square with the black border. On the back of uniform of the soldier with the binoculars, written in a blue colored pencil in bold with small lettering, the text reads "U.S. NAVY". Towards the bottom of the poster, painted in white, bold with huge lettering, the text reads "BUY EXTRA BONDS". At the bottom middle portion of the poster, printed in black, bold with tiny lettering, the text reads "U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--0-581636". At the bottom right hand corner of the poster, printed in black, bold with tiny lettering, the text reads "WFD 908-A". Dimensions: 28 x 20 |
Date |
1944 |
Creator |
Schreiber, George |
Catalog Number |
1982.156.006 |
Collection |
Archival Collection |
Notes |
"Georges Schreiber was born 25 April 1904 in Brussels, Belgium. After studying in Berlin, London, Rome, Paris, and Florence, he moved to New York in 1928. Schreiber exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art - often winning prizes. Besides his career as a lithographer, Schreiber was also a painter, illustrator, watercolorist as well as a teacher at the New School for Social Research. Museum collections of Schreiber's work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of the City of New York... During the Second World War, the United States Navy commissioned Schreiber to create paintings to use as posters. When fellow artists criticized him for this kind of work, Schreiber replied that "art for art’s sake" should be shelved for the duration of the war and voiced his approval of any medium which brought good art to great numbers of people." [http://rogallery.com/Schreiber_Georges/Schreiber-bio.htm-12/15/2016] "To control the content and imagery of war messages, the government created the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) in June 1942. Among its wide-ranging responsibilities, OWI sought to review and approve the design and content of government posters. Eventually, two contending groups within OWI clashed over poster design. Those who saw posters as "war art" favored stylized images and symbolism, while recruits from the world of advertising wanted posters to be more like ads. When admen gained the upper hand at OWI, the look of government posters changed decidedly. OWI officials felt that the most urgent problem on the home front was the careless leaking of sensitive information that could be picked up by spies and saboteurs. OWI officials brought a variety of approaches to poster design. Graphics chief Francis Brennan, former art director of Fortune Magazine, believed that posters should be "war art", combining the sophisticated style of contemporary art with the promotion of war aims. OWI drew some of its specialists from the world of advertising and commercial art, who tended to think in terms of "ad campaigns". The results were sometimes oddly superficial -- posters that translated messages of sacrifice and struggle into the familiar advertising world of smiling faces and carefree households. Advertising specialists in OWI finally gained the upper hand in 1943. From that time, government posters looked more like magazine illustrations, and the idea of "war art" was abandoned. OWI's admen now ran "information campaigns", using posters in concert with magazines, radio, and other kinds of paid advertising space." [http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/victory5.htm-12/4/2016] |
Category |
Posters |
People |
Schreiber, George |
Search Terms |
Military Poster Posters World War II World War Two |
Subjects |
Posters Ships Soldiers War World War II |
Credit line |
SMCHA Collection |