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The Posters That Went to War · Over There
Liberty Sowing the Seeds of Victory
Frank Vincent DuMond (1865-1951) · National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C., 1917
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph Frank Vincent DuMond drew for the National War Garden Commission in Washington in 1917, 94 by 56 cm.
Why it matters
The commission, with Charles Lathrop Pack as president and P. S. Ridsdale as secretary, sent free books to anyone who wrote in, so that home gardens could feed the country in wartime. DuMond was one of the most influential teacher-painters in twentieth-century America.
What to notice
Liberty in a red, white and blue liberty cap soars with a rainbow over fertile country, sowing as the title says.
A goddess sowing seed over the kitchen garden.
Provenance
- School
- The Great War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Frank Vincent DuMond (1865-1951)
- Campaign
- Food Will Win the War · Uncle Sam and Columbia
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C., 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002709064 · POS - US .D84, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Commons licence re-read 2026-11-02 on the Commons mirror of the same LoC scan: Public domain (PD-1923, PD-Layout, PD-US-expired).
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