1942 Wickwire Spencer Steel Co Boris Artzybasheff Anti-Axis Tojo Mussolini

Date: 1942
Artist: Artzybasheff, Boris
Size (in): 21.5” x 17”
Size (cm): 54.6 x 43.2
Condition: B
Linen backed: No

This is a vintage original WWII era offset advertising poster created by Ukrainian born American illustrator Boris Artzybasheff for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company of Buffalo, New York.

Artzybasheff created a series of these posters for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company during WWII with each one rendering a surreal image of the company’s steel products destroying or menacing the Axis powers in a variety of creative and fantastical ways. This poster is printed with a 1942 copyright by the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company and features a three headed chicken with the likenesses of Axis leaders Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo heading down a steel conveyor belt into a hot oven.  Steel belting for conveyors was one of the products made by the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company.

This vintage original poster shows modest toning from age on the margins and moderate handling wear including some bumping to the edges.  The poster is free of tape or pinholes.  Overall condition is very good for this rare piece from one of the most prolific and important illustrators of the 20th century.  See our other listings for more posters from this series.