War Posters: The Historical Role of Wartime Poster Art 1914-1919
By Martin Hardie and Arthur K. Sabin
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"Keep all Canadians busy. Buy 1918 victory bonds," advises a poster bearing a pair of industrious beavers
"Must children die and Mothers plead in vain? Buy more Liberty Bonds," demands a heartrending scene of an overwhelmed woman and her infants
"Books wanted for our men in camp and 'over there' — Take your gifts to the public library," proposes an image of a doughboy balancing a stack of volumes
Striking poster art, featuring exhortations to support the troops and help the suffering, appeared across Europe and North America during World War I. This compilation presents 80 color and black-and-white posters, issued from 1914 to 1919, that include works by Steinlen, Biró, Paul Nash, and other noted artists. Arranged by the country of issue, they comprise examples from Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria/Hungary, the United States, and elsewhere. In addition, a substantial and informative Introduction details the historical role of wartime posters.
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War Posters - Martin Hardie
A. WOHLFELD.
FRAUEN UND MÄDCHEN! SAMMELT FRAUENHAAR!
(Women and girls! collect women’s hair!)
Poster appealing for gifts of women’s hair, issued from the office of the Collecting Committee, Berlin.
WAR
POSTERS
The Historical Role of Wartime Poster Art 1914–1919
Selected and Edited by
Martin Hardie
and
Arthur K. Sabin
Dover Publications, Inc.
Mineola, New York
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by A. & C. Black, Ltd., Soho Square, London, in 1920. The original title was War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914–1919.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hardie, Martin, 1875–1952, editor. | Sabin, Arthur K. (Arthur Knowles), 1879–1959, editor.
Title: War posters: the historical role of wartime poster art 1914–1919 / selected and edited by Martin Hardie and Arthur K. Sabin.
Description: Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016014996| ISBN 9780486800264 (paperback) | ISBN 0486800261
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1914-1918—Posters. | World War, 1914–1918—Art and the war. | BISAC: ART / Prints. | HISTORY / Military / World War I.
Classification: LCC D522.25 .W37 2006 | DDC 769/.499403—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014996
Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley
80026101 2016
www.doverpublications.com
TO
FRANK PICK, ESQ.,
OF THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC RAILWAYS COMPANY, IN HONOUR OF HIS BRAVE AND SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO LINK ART WITH COMMERCE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
POSTERS AND THE WAR
CHAPTER II.
GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER III.
FRANCE
CHAPTER IV.
GERMANY—AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
CHAPTER V.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CHAPTER VI.
OTHER COUNTRIES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ARRANGED UNDER THE NAMES OF ARTISTS AND GROUPED UNDER THE COUNTRIES OF ISSUE
Illustrations marked with an asterisk (*) are in colour.
GERMANY
1.*A. WOHLFELD.
FRAUEN UND MADCHEN! SAMMELT FRAUENHAAR! (Women and girls! Collect your hair!) A poster appealing for gifts of women’s hair, issued from the office of the collecting Committee, Berlin.
GREAT BRITAIN
2.*BERNARD PARTRIDGE.
TAKE UP THE SWORD OF JUSTICE. Issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. No. 106 of their posters. Also issued as a poster stamp and as a Flag Day
souvenir.
3.*F. ERNEST JACKSON.
SONG TO THE EVENING STAR. This poster was one of a group of four which were sent out by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London for use in dug-outs in France and other places abroad, Christmas, 1916.
4.*T. GREGORY BROWN.
THEIR HOME, BELGIUM. War Loan Poster, published in 1918.
5.FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A.
BRITAIN’S CALL TO ARMS. Recruiting poster published by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, 1914.
6.J. WALTER WEST.
HARVEST-TIME, 1916: WOMEN’S WORK ON THE LAND. Issued by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Ltd.
7.FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A.
ORPHELINAT DES ARMÉES. (ARMY ORPHANAGE). (To ensure that the little orphans shall have a home and motherly care, education in the country, a career suited to each child, and the religion of their fathers.
) Poster for a French Flag Day.
Issued in London.
8.GERALD SPENCER PRYSE.
THE ONLY ROAD FOR AN ENGLISHMAN. THROUGH DARKNESS TO LIGHT; THROUGH FIGHTING TO TRIUMPH. The first war poster by Spencer Pryse. Published by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, 1914.
9.GERALD SPENCER PRYSE.
BELGIAN REFUGEES IN ENGLAND. Issued by the Belgian Red Cross Fund in London, 1915.
10.GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A.
MINE BE A COT BESIDE THE HILL.
This poster was one of a group of four which were sent out by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London for use in dug-outs, huts, etc., in France and other places abroad, Christmas, 1916. The drawing was the gift of the artist.
11.L. RAVEN-HILL.
THE WATCHERS OF THE SEAS. Recruiting poster for the British Navy, 1915.
12.BERNARD PARTRIDGE.
Kossovo DAY IS THE SERBIAN NATIONAL DAY. Poster of a British Flag Day,
June 25, 1916.
13.JOHN HASSALL.
BELGIAN CANAL BOAT FUND. For relief of the civil population behind the firing lines.
14.JOHN HASSALL.
MUSIC IN WAR-TIME: GRAND PATRIOTIC CONCERT, ALBERT HALL. Poster of the Professional Classes War Relief Council.
15.BERNARD PARTRIDGE.
HAVEN. STAR AND GARTER HOME. Poster of the British Women’s Hospital Fund, appealing for subscriptions toward the expense of converting the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, into a home for men incurably disabled in the War.
16PAUL NASH.
Poster of an Exhibition of War Paintings and Drawings at the Leicester Galleries, London, May, 1918.
17.SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, R.A.
Poster of an Exhibition of War Paintings and Drawings, executed on the Western Front by Major William Orpen. At Agnew’s Galleries, London, 1919.
18.NORMAN WILKINSON.
THE DARDANELLES. WAR SKETCHES