Patriotic Propaganda Poster: A CARELESS WORD... ANOTHER CROSS

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Original
Patriotic Propaganda Poster: A CARELESS WORD... ANOTHER CROSS
22 by 28 inches.
Listed, by IMA-USA for 5.
Fresh, clean, folded as issued.  Tack holes and tape residue on back.
Artist: John Atherton, from Wikipedia:
Atherton was a successful artist;
a painter, magazine illustrator, writer and designer. His works are within numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Atherton had aspired to be a fine artist, however his first paid jobs were for commercial art firms designing advertisements for corporations such as General Motors, Shell Oil, Container Corporation of America, and Dole. However, by 1936, encouraged primarily by friends, such as Alexander Brook,
an acclaimed New York realist painter, he returned to the fine arts.
Atherton continued to accept numerous commissions for magazine illustrations; such as Fortune magazine, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post starting with his December 1942 design, “Patient Dog.” This picture is reminiscent of his friend Norman Rockwell ‘Americana style’ and captures a poignant moment of nostalgia, where a loyal dog looks toward a wall of hunting equipment and a framed picture of his owner in military uniform.
OWI Poster No. 23.  Office of War Information, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Government Printing Office : 1943 - O - 501237