Vintage Posters

Printed by the Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management. In the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York Color still vibrant, evidence of usual US Gov't fold marks before mounting. In New York when Hilter invaded Paris in 1940, French artist Jean Carlu stayed in America for the duration of the war, creating powerful symbolic posters in support of the Allied war effort. This poster won first place in a government-sponsored poster contest aimed at boosting wartime production.