1918 It Takes A Man To Fill It Join The Navy Charles Stafford Duncan

Date: 1918Artist: Duncan, Charles Stafford . Size (in): 42.25” x 28”Size (cm): 107.3 x 71.1Condition: BLinen backed: YesThis rare antique original WWI US Navy recruiting poster was created by San Francisco artist Charles Stafford Duncan early in his long career. The poster is dated 1918 in the image area next to the artist’s name. Duncan renders a simple but highly effective and arresting image of a US Navy sailor’s uniform draped on a chair under the text headline It Takes A Man To Fill It – Join The Navy. The lower left hand corner indicates “Issued By Recruiting Inspector Western Division U.S. Navy” and the lower margin indicates the poster was printed by Schmidt Litho. Of San Francisco, California. Charles Stafford Duncan was born in Kansas in 1892 and moved to San Francisco when he was about four years old. He studied at the California School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Maynard Dixon and Ralph Stackpole and became associated with the bohemian San Francisco artist community