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The words 'I WANT YOU' run in bold navy caps above his head, underlined with a red rule that reads almost as a command in itself. Below the portrait, red block lettering states 'for the U.S. ARMY \/ ENLIST NOW'. There is no background detail. The pointing gesture and the flat, high-contrast palette carry everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by James Montgomery Flagg (1877–1960) for the United States Army in 1917, the image originated as the cover of Leslie's Weekly dated 6 July 1916. Flagg modelled Uncle Sam on his own reflection, adding a goatee and white hair to convert a self-portrait into a national allegory. Once the United States entered the First World War, the War Department adopted the design for recruitment. Over four million copies were printed before the armistice, and the poster was reissued for the Second World War. Flagg drew inspiration from Alfred Leete's 1914 Lord Kitchener recruitment poster, translating the direct-address pointing figure from a historical individual into an enduring symbolic character. The design is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the most searched-for and widely recognised American propaganda poster, and one of the most reproduced poster compositions in history. Reproduced from the 1917 source design on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper using pigment-based archival inks. 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