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...have been on duty with the Army Recruiting Service for over two years recruiting aviation cadets for the Army Air Forces, and we have never had a poster that compares with James Montgomery Flagg's excellent "I Want You"-until last January when Mr. Stan Ekman of Chicago designed an Army aviation cadet poster, a picture of which I enclose...
...Ekman's poster does everything you say a good war poster should do. "It tells its story simply, at a glance and for keeps-to plain citizens and highbrows alike...
Last week Donald Nelson had the tiny plant put at the head of the 1,300 plants enrolled in the Labor-Management War Production Drive, sent out an honor flag poster and a congratulatory letter...
...poster trend has caught up many a well-known U.S. painter more accustomed to abstractions and highbrow symbolism, than to a simple realism. One such is Lawrence Beall Smith, whose poster of three children shadowed by a swastika (see cut) was released this week by Associated American Artists. Where the shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing...
...poster has carried the punch of James Montgomery Flagg's recruiting poster of World War I depicting a persuasive Uncle Sam pointing a solemn finger at the U.S. and saying I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. Closer to it last week was a poster by veteran Saturday Evening Post Coverman Norman Rockwell. Created without benefit of a New Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters...