Description: World War II dated 1941 Buy War Defense Bonds & Stamps Counter Easel Poster Sign Henry Billings. Buy A Share In America - Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps. Artwork is signed H Billings. Measures 9 1/2" x 13 1/4". Marked lower left US Government Printing Office 1941 J.402976. Absolutely guaranteed a genuine authentic original from 1941 era. It is lithographed paper on poster cardboard. The backing easel looks to have never been opened, I left is closed so as not to cause any damage. Some normal age wear along the edges, overall fine - see my photos. This came from the Hunt Cards & News Store that operated at 750 Broad St Weymouth MA for over 100 years until it finally closed around 15 years ago. Henry Billings (July 13, 1901 – October 1985) was an American artist. He was a painter, illustrator, muralist, and art instructor active in New York City. He was a grandson of John Shaw Billings, a surgeon and the first director of the New York Public Library.Billings attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York, and was a member of the Art Colony of Woodstock, New York.His painting style shows an interest in the mechanical and machinery, as well as an attraction to surrealism.During the New Deal, Billings created a number of murals on commissions overseen by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later, the Section of Fine Arts). In 1936–37, he created a series of five murals depicting winter sports for the Lake Placid, New York post office. He also contributed murals to post offices in Medford, Massachusetts, Wappinger Falls, New York, and Columbia, Tennessee, and a striking mural of a panther which still hangs near the ladies' powder room in Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center.In 1945, Billings created a series of paintings for Life magazine depicting "strafing targets as they appear to the fighter pilot through the transparent rectangle of his reflector gunsight."Billings died in Sag Harbor, New York, in October 1985.
Price: 65 USD
Location: Weymouth, Massachusetts
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