1945 Movie-Goers Keep Buying Bonds Ben Carleton Mead US Treasury WWII

Date: 1945Artist: Carleton Mead, Ben Size (in): 60" x 40"Size (cm): 152.5 x 101.6Condition: BLinen backed: NoThis rare vintage original poster was created by Texas western artist and illustrator Ben Carleton Mead and issued by the United States Treasury to help promote the sale of war bonds in movie theaters. Ben Carleton Mead was born in Bay City, Texas and graduated from High School in Amarillo. After a period of time at the Chicago Art Institute Carleton Mead returned to Texas and operated his own commercial art studios in both San Antonio and Dallas. In 1930 Carleton Mead achieved acclaim for illustrating F. Frank Dobie’s Coronado’s Children which lead to further illustration work with Dobie and other Texas authors. This is a large poster measuring 60” x 40”. Carleton Mead’s artwork features a rifle toting American soldier along with his comrades, projected as if on the screen of a movie theater, advancing through a war torn European village with text that reads Movie-Goers You buy