War 5 1/2% Loan
Yankovsky
1914–1917
- Medium
- Color lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 59.9 × 50 cm (23 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- poster
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
posterprintingprintprints and drawinglithographypaper (fiber product)
About
Much like the image Saint George (Bringer of Victories) from the series War: Mystical Images of War by Natalia Goncharova, this war-bond poster transforms the immediately recognizable figure of Saint George into a modern icon of warfare, wedding a mystical religious past with the deadly industrial present. The poster implores: “Our valiant army, sacrificing blood for the motherland fulfills its sacred duty. Let us fulfill ours—subscribe for the loan.”