World War 1 posters - part 2

During World War 1 the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history. The ability of poster to inspire, inform, and persuade combined with vibrant design trends in many of the participating countries to produce thousands of interesting visual works. As a valuable historical research resource, the posters provide multiple points of view for understanding this global conflict. As artistic works, the posters range in style form graphically vibrant works by well-known designers to anonymous ones. 

Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

This is Part 2 of a 10-part series on WW1 posters:

1914-15 Spendet Liebes - gaben (Donate love gifts)
 artist Lina von Schauroth (1874-1970 Germany)

1915 Helft Unseren Kriegsgefangenen in Feindesland
(Help Our Prisoners of War in Enemy Countries)
artist Lina von Schauroth

1917 Kaiser u Volksdank für Heer und Flotte
(The Kaiser and People's Thanks for the Army and Fleet)
artist Lina von Schauroth

Edgar James Kealey (1887-1977) was a poster designer and illustrator born in Middlesbrough the son of a newspaper advertising manager. Details of Kealey's art education are not known but he was active from c. 1914 until the 1930's.

c1914 "Fall In"
Answer now in your country's hour of need
artist Edgar James Kealey (1887-1977)

1914c Follow Me!
Your Country Needs You
artist Edgar James Kealey

1915 Women of Britain say 'Go!'
Published by the Parliamentary Recruitment Committee
artist Edgar James Kealey

c1914 Public Schools Brigade
Royal Fusiliers, 118th Infantry Brigade
artist John Hassall

n.d. National Relief Fund
Two Ways of Fighting
artist John Hassall (UK)

1915 "La Marseillaise"
artist Jacques Carlu (France)

1918 Par la Retour du Soldat Vainqueur
(For the Return of the Victorious Soldier)
artist Jacques Carlu (France)

John Savile Lumley (1876–1960) was a prolific English book illustrator, and poster  designer. He was born in London in 1876 and attended the Royal Academy of Arts July 1893 to July 1898.

During WW1 Lumley was approached by printer Arthur Gunn with an idea for a new army recruitment poster, the now well known “Daddy, what did You do in the Great War? According to Gunn's son, Lumley worked on a sketch of the idea before presenting the idea to the proposal to the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee who subsequently commissioned it in 1915.

1915 4th City of London Battalion Royal Fusiliers
artist John Savile Lumley

1915 Daddy. what did You do in the Great War?
artist John Savile Lumley

1915 Bert Thomas (Herbert Samuel Thomas MBE)

Herbert Samuel Thomas MBE was a British political cartoonist contributing to Punch magazine and the creator of well-known British propaganda posters during the First and Second World Wars. Thomas joined Punch in 1905 and contributed until 1935. During the First World War he was in the Artists Rifles.

Thomas' political cartoons started to be included in gallery exhibitions as artistic caricatures as early as 1913, in an exhibition on the Strand by the Society of Humorous Art and in 1916 his cartoon against the Clyde strikers with the Kaiser saying "pass friend" to a striker was a featured exhibit in an exhibition of war cartoons in the Graves Galleries on Pall Mall.

In 1918 he became nationally known for his cartoon "Arf a mo, Kaiser", drawn in ten minutes for the Smokes for Tommy Weekly Dispatch campaign. The cartoon raised nearly a quarter of a million pounds towards "comforts" (tobacco and cigarettes) for front line troops and the image was re-drawn and used during the Second World War with the caption "Arf a mo, 'itler". The Germans banned the "Arf a mo, 'itler" cartoon and to ensure British prisoners did not have their comfort parcels confiscated, he created a variation with the caption "Are we downhearted?” He was made MBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours.

'ware Spies! "You didn't oughter Said it!
artist Bert Thomas

'ware Spies! "Keep it under your hat"
artist Bert Thomas

1914 "Arf a 'Mo' Kaiser!"
artist Bert Thomas

c1915 Men of South Africa Avenge
artist Bert Thomas

1915 War Bonds Feed the Guns!
artist Bert Thomas

1917 "Fag" Day
artist Bert Thomas

1917 Did you Buy War Bonds Today?
artist Bert Thomas

1918 Your Maxim "Buy War Bonds"
artist Bert Thomas

1918 You buy War Bonds
We do the Rest
artist Berrt Thomas

1918 For Her!
Buy War Savings Certificates
artist Bert Thomas

1918 Feed the Guns with War Bonds and Help to End the War
artist Bert Thomas

1918 Feed the Guns Campaign
artist Bert Thomas

Joan of Arc saved France
Women of Britain Save Your Country
Buy War Savings Certificates
artist Bert Thomas

1915 Line Up, Boys! Enlist To-day
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in kilts marching in step with shouldered rifles
artist W.H. Caffyn (1870-1958)

1915 Come Along     Boys! Enlist To-day
artist W. H. Caffyn

1915 Comité de l'Or du Département du Rhone
artist Jean Barbier (France)

Julius Klinger (1876 – 1942) was an  Austrian painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial graphic artist, typographer and writer. Klinger studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum in Vienna.

1915 Der Krieg in Wort und Bild
(The War in Words and Pictures)
 artist Julius Klinger

1918 Achte Kriegsanleihe
(Eighth War Loan) Austria-Hungary
artist Julius Klinger 

1915 Don't Stand Looking at This
Go and Help! (UK)

1915 Economisons le Pain en Mangeant des Pommes de Terre
(Let's Save Bread by Eating Potatoes)
artist Yvonne Vernet (aged 14, France)

1915 Enlist To-day and have it to say you helped to beat The Germans (UK)

1915 Everyone Should Do His Bit
Enlist Now
artist Baron Low

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903 USA):

1871 Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
oil on canvas 144.3 x 162.4 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
artist James McNeill Whistler

1915 fight for her
after James McNeill Whistler

1917 Old Age Must Come
War Savings Certificates
after James McNeill Whistler