Semez du bleacute. Cest de lor pour la France – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Semez du bleacute. Cest de lor pour la France
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Sow wheat! It is gold for France" is the slogan on this 1918 color lithograph by Suzanne Ferrand, which turns a call to farm work into a patriotic appeal. Wheat, a scythe and the French flag share the composition, tying the harvest directly to the national war effort. By 1918, four years of fighting had drained France of farmland and farm labor, and imported grain was expensive and hard to ship past German submarines, so growing bread at home was a matter of survival. The poster also survives in a second issue, a sign of how widely the message was circulated.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 55 x 35 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Grow wheat. It is gold for France. Signed: Suzanne Ferrand. Another issue: POS - Fr .E26 no. 9 (with same title 54 x 36 cm.). Promotional goal: Fr. J72. 1918. Item is no. 229 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. BZZ · Preissig Vojtech artist. |
| Subjects | Wheat--1910-1920. Scythes--19110-1920. Flags--French--1910-1920. World War 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--France. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,782 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 940_Semez_du_bleacute_Cest_1918 |
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