Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Jack Wittrup
World War II Propaganda Poster Illustration

About the Item

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 43.00" x 34.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Original World War II poster illustration. Includes the poster (22"x 30") as well. In addition, included a framed story page from Life magazine about the airmen posing for the poster, which shows the painting and the real men, as they posed. The poster was created to promote the Army Air Forces Convalescent Training Program. The caption reads "The AAF takes care of its own" Jack Wittrup was a well known pin up artist, but also did images such as this, as well as being a prolific artist of many advertising images of the time, including the Coca Cola Santa on the back of National Geographic (taking over after Haddon Sundblom).
  • Creator:
    Jack Wittrup (1912 - 1987, American)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 43 in (109.22 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fort Washington, PA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38431316313
More From This SellerView All
  • (Untitled)
    By Frank Benton Linton
    Located in Fort Washington, PA
    Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 54.00" x 38.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
    Category

    Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • General Douglas MacArthur
    By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
    Located in Fort Washington, PA
    Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right In the Timken War Bond campaign, JC Leyendecker completed more than a dozen paintings that were rep...
    Category

    1940s Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Bulls Eye, Saturday Evening Post Cover
    By Stanley Massey Arthurs
    Located in Fort Washington, PA
    Date: 1909 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 26.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right PRICE ON REQUEST- The Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover, December 10, 1909
    Category

    Early 1900s Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • Alden, Arrow Collar Advertisement, 1922
    By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
    Located in Fort Washington, PA
    Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid Down on Board Signature: Inscribed with Title (Lower Center) Joseph Christian Leyendecker created the Arrow Collar Man in 1905 for Cluette, Peabody & Comp...
    Category

    1920s Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Board, Canvas, Oil

  • Good Scouts, Life Magazine Cover
    By Norman Rockwell
    Located in Fort Washington, PA
    Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 18.00" x 14.00", Framed 25.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Life Magazine, November 8, 1924 Good Scouts, Girl Scouts...
    Category

    1920s Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post Cover
    By Frederick Sands Brunner
    Located in Fort Washington, PA
    Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 29.00" x 21.00", Framed 34.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post cover, February 16, 1935
    Category

    1930s Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

You May Also Like
  • Nicholas V. Sanchez - La Brisa, Painting 2021
    Located in Greenwich, CT
    oil on canvas 48” H x 36” W Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While at the...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Paul Manes - Woman with Pearls, Painting 2016
    By Paul Manes
    Located in Greenwich, CT
    Paul Manes was born May 4, 1948 in Austin, Texas. He began his professional career in New York City in the early 1980s. His art has been widely exhibited in America and Europe and hi...
    Category

    2010s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Paint, Oil

  • Nicholas V. Sanchez - Veracruz Dancer, Painting 2021
    Located in Greenwich, CT
    oil on canvas 30” H x 40” W Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While at the...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Nicholas V. Sanchez - Ballerina de Sol, Painting 2021
    Located in Greenwich, CT
    oil on canvas 16” H x 12” W Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While at th...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Hesitation
    By Barbara Masterson
    Located in Troy, NY
    This oil on canvas portrait of a Hudson Valley farm worker shows on his face the demands of the work and his openness to life. The artist treats the blue denim in its many hues as if she were showing the many folds of royal clothing in an eighteenth century portrait...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • French School Early XIXth
    Located in ROUEN, FR
    French School Early Nineteenth" FRENCH SCHOOL early 19th century. “Portrait of a woman with a headdress”. Oil on canvas nicely framed. H.60 L.48.
    Category

    19th Century Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

Recently Viewed

View All