Your Britain Fight For It Now School WWII Abram Games

£1,450.00

Original vintage World War Two poster - Your Britain Fight For It Now - featuring a great design by the notable British graphic designer Abram Games (Abraham Gamse; 1914-1996) showing children sitting in class at their desks in a new modern school building over an image of the bombed out ruins of an old classroom with a desk on its side, broken floorboards, a blackboard on the ground and a map of Britain and children's drawings on the damaged walls, the title text above and below, and information on the side - A school in Cambridgeshire where village children are learning to grow up in healthful surroundings. This building is characteristic of the best developments in welfare and education. Issued by the A.B.C.A. Army Bureau of Current Affairs formed in 1941 to promote education and training during WWII and the post-war reconstruction period. The school featured is the Impington Village College that opened in 1939; the building was designed by the notable German-American architect Walter Gropius (Walter Adolph Georg Gropius; 1883-1969), founder of The Bauhaus School of Architecture, and the modernist English architect Maxwell Fry (Edwin Maxwell Fry; 1899-1987). Printed in England by Multi Machine Plates Ltd London. Horizontal. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, staining, backed on linen.

Country

UK

Year

1942

Style

War Posters

Artist

Abram Games

Size (cm)

51x75