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Poster: The Navy Needs You! Don't Read American History - Make It!
James Montgomery Flagg, 1877 - 1960
Flagg, James Montgomery
United States
1877 - 1960
Male
42 x 48 in. (106.7 x 121.9 cm)
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Printed by H. C. Miner Litho. Co., New York
1973.176
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.176DI1
digital image
full
2/22/2006
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73.176DI2
digital image
detail - lower left corner
2/22/2006
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Poster: I Want You For U.S. Army
James Montgomery Flagg, 1877 - 1960
Flagg, James Montgomery
United States
1877 - 1960
Male
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1917
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In the most famous of American recruiting posters, Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States of America) demands your participation in the U.S. Army. The Army printed over four million copies of I Want You during the First World War. James Montgomery Flagg's depiction of Uncle Sam, reportedly modeled on the artists' own features, has become iconic. Uncle Sam's paternal appearance and forceful call to action heroized soldiers and one's duty to the country.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
1971.50
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
71.50DI#1
digital image
full
8/30/2006
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Poster: Wake Up, America! Civilization Calls Every Man, Woman and Child!
James Montgomery Flagg, 1877 - 1960
Flagg, James Montgomery
United States
1877 - 1960
Male
42 x 28 1/8 in. (106.7 x 71.4 cm)
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1917
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1917
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A personification is an artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person. Traditional personifications of the United States, like Uncle Sam and Columbia/America, were common in war propaganda. Columbia is a conflicting presence in American World War I posters; sometimes she is pliant and beckoning, other times solid and fearsome. The preponderance of idealized females in WWI posters, in comparison to the few representations of "real" women, contradicted the reality of American women's growing participation in factories, farms, and hospitals.
In Wake Up, America!, America dozes while the fires of war rage in the distance. Her feminine, passive characteristics-soft arms, limp hand, and white, exposed neck-are an indictment in this poster. The artist, James Montgomery Flagg, admonishes Americans to wake up and prepare for war.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
1973.169
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Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
73.169DI1
digital image
full
3/1/2006
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