WORLD WAR II CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS LINEN-MOUNTED NORMAN LEWIS POSTER.
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Winning Bid:
$118.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
19x31.5" poster shows newspaper seller standing behind barbed wire battlefield holding newspaper w/"Every Front A CIO Front" headline. Factories are seen behind him. 1940s. The CIO refers to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the US and Canada from 1935 to 1955. The CIO supported Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal Coalition, and was open to African Americans. Poster art is by Norman Lewis (1909-1979), an important African American artist whose career began in 1930s Harlem and was later associated w/abstract expressionists of the late 1940s and early 1950s (and was a contemporary of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Mark Tobey). Poster has separate tag strip added at bottom that breaks down war contributions. Top corners have been replaced and three 1/8" holes across top margin have been repaired. Poster has evenly aged and now displays VF as linen-mounted.
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