Image of french workers with hands in the air. Text lower left corner:"Poster A-25 War Production Drive Headquarters, WPB, Washington, D.C"
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The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
Ben Shahn was born in Kovno,(Kaunus) Lithuania, on September 12, 1898. Shahn immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, in 1906. He first worked as a lithographer's apprentice until 1930 and was formally educated at NYU and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He was associated with the Social Realist movement and his work often joined striking visual images with compassionate and powerful political commentary. During World War II (1939-1945) he designed posters the Office of War Information. Shahn, age 71, died on March 14, 1969.
overall: Height: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) | Width: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm)
WPB poster
Poster created by Ben Shahn for the War Production Board