GORDON Witold - To the front !!! U.S.A. [1920]

Witold Gordon - To the front !!! Warsaw Exposition of the Polish National Union in the United States of America. 1920. art lithography by W. Główczewski in Warsaw.

Format:51x74cm. Significant losses, traces of folding. Infrequent.

Military poster of the Polish-Bolshevik war ["Poland first to fight" - catalog of Polish military posters. CB Publishing Agency Andrzej Zasieczny. Warsaw 200] by Witold Gordon [1885-1968] - Polish painter working in the United States. He went to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After completing his education, he went to New York where in 1932 he completed, among other things, two major wall paintings at Radio City Music Hall and a poster for the Lake Placid Olympics. In 1939 he created a mural the size of 6,000 feet on the New York World's Fair building, a work that was repeatedly reproduced on posters and postcards. In the same year he made an art tour of the southern states, the result of this trip was 35 gouaches collectively titled "American Scene" and was exhibited in February 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition was very well received, and Vogue magazine posted positive reviews. In the mid-1940s, he received a commission from the New Yorker to design covers depicting old New York. In 1949, he again traveled throughout the southern states, where he created a continuation of his "American Scene" series.