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Provide the Sinews of War (reverse of Ready to Start) by Joseph Pennell

Provide the Sinews of War (reverse of Ready to Start) by Joseph Pennell

Provide the Sinews of War (reverse of Ready to Start)

Joseph Pennell

Title

Provide the Sinews of War (reverse of Ready to Start)

 
Artist

Joseph Pennell

  1857 - 1926 (biography)
Year
1917 /1918 
Technique
photolithograph (reversed after the original) 
Image Size
15 5/16 x 19" image and paper size (poster margins trimmed) 
Signature
signed in stone, lower right 
Edition Size
not applicable in this state 
Annotations
 
Reference
Reverse of Wolfsy 512; Library of Congress ds.07198 
Paper
antique-white paper mounted to cardstock 
State
published 
Publisher
Committee on Public Information for the U.S. War Films, Liberty Loans and the U.S. Shipping Board. 
Inventory ID
17575 
Price
SOLD
Description

This poster for World War I, which read "Provide the Sinews of War - Buy War Bonds", was derived from his original lithograph (Wuerth 512) and is mentioned by Weurth in his book on Pennell's lithographs, page 230: "...Subjects from which posters were made, brought up on stone and worked over by Pennell...." Because of this the images are reversed on the posters.

Pennell comments about the image: "Dignified, solemn, immense she sttod, held to the dock by the great cables; and the great cranes swung great car loads of war work aboard her, as fast as the engines could bring them. On land she was guarded by the marines. In the air the planes were guarding her."

He did not identify the location or the ship.

From the collection of California printmaker Roi Partridge.