{"product_id":"oer-ramparts-we-watch-schlaikjer-1944-ww2","title":"O'er the Ramparts We Watch 1944 | Schlaikjer WW2 Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn aviator in a brown leather bomber jacket stands at near-mythological scale amongst the clouds, a bomb cradled under one arm, a flight helmet in the other. Below him, silhouettes of heavy bombers move in loose formation through the cumulus layer. The billowing clouds frame the figure with the faint suggestion of wings. Above, spaced white capitals read O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCH, drawn from the third verse of The Star-Spangled Banner. Below a navy band bearing the USAAF winged-star roundel, the footer reads UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES in gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer in 1944, commissioned by the United States War Department and published by Brown and Bigelow of St. Paul, Minnesota. Schlaikjer was appointed official War Department artist in 1942, producing recruitment and bond posters across all US service branches. His realist figurative style, developed at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, brought a weight to his wartime figures that the more graphic American poster tradition of the period rarely matched. He was also the official portraitist for Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Patton during this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poster is catalogued in the 1945 Monthly Government Catalog and held in institutional collections at the Hoover Institution, the UNT Libraries Government Documents Department, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It is one of the most reproduced USAAF recruitment posters of World War Two, and stands as a useful study in the contrast between American academic realism and the concurrent modernist approaches of Jean Carlu and the Office of War Information's graphic design commissions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors of WW2 American printed material, researchers of wartime visual culture, and those drawn to the figurative illustrative tradition of the 1940s. Printed using the giclée process on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art Paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":63809383629177,"sku":"VPA-13368-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":63809383661945,"sku":"VPA-13368-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":63809383694713,"sku":"VPA-13368-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70cm","offer_id":63809383727481,"sku":"VPA-13368-50x70cm","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1","offer_id":63809383760249,"sku":"VPA-13368-A1","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100cm","offer_id":63809383793017,"sku":"VPA-13368-70x100cm","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0","offer_id":63809383825785,"sku":"VPA-13368-A0","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Propaganda-Military-USAAF-OerTheRampartsWeWatch-Schlaikjer-1941.jpg?v=1782033076","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/oer-ramparts-we-watch-schlaikjer-1944-ww2","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}