[“Chain Him.”]. Lithographed poster after Sergei Nikolaevich Kostin issued for “Russian War Relief. Inc.”

(WORLD WAR II).

1941

Linen-backed.

A scarce example of an American hand-stenciled propaganda poster inspired by and executed in the style of the Soviet “Tass Windows” and probably issued by the Victory Workshop, a left-wing artist collaborative in New York that included a number of prominent ex-WPA artists. Russian War Relief was the largest American agency for foreign war aid established in New York in July, 1941 a month after Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union. See The Art Institute of Chicago, Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945 (online exhibition) www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS/artwork/205248.