American, Large Framed 1918 Third Liberty Loan Poster

Herbert Paus (1880-1946) American, Large Framed 1918 Third Liberty Loan Poster. Depicts soldiers in near silhouette above the words "TO MAKE THE WORLD A DECENT PLACE TO LIVE IN DO YOUR PART - BUY U.S. GOVERNMENT BONDS THIRD LIBERTY LOAN." Attribution middle left. Printed by Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. Framed. Overall Size: Sight Size: #10 #3575. Herbert Andrew Paus was born in 1880 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By the age of seven he was already showing artistic interest and ability, and his parents encouraged his talent by sending him to study under Burt Harwood, a European-trained artist. Even after his family moved to the Puget Sound area in Washington, he spent every summer until he was sixteen in Minneapolis studying with Harwood, meeting numerous eccentric artists at the Sibley House Artist Enclave. In 1896 Harwood got him work as an illustrator for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, quickly becoming the head staff cartoonist. When he was eighteen he quit journalism to join the Binner Engraving Company in Chicago, and encouraged them to open a New York office with himself as head illustrator. He worked during the day and spent his nights taking cla

Date

1947

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

poster

Original size

1,000 × 788 pixels

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