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1951-1960: Cold War

ARTIST UNKNOWN

"V. I. Lenin died on 21 January 1924"

1950s

Lithograph

33 x 23¼

In the captions artists' titles are in italics, descriptive titles are in roman, and inscriptions taken from the artwork are in quotation marks.

Dimensions are in inches.

ALEXANDER ZHITOMIRSKY

Russian, 1907-1993

"Anglo-Iraqi Pact"

1951

Photomontage

10½ x 10¼

ADOLF HOFFMEISTER

Czech, 1902-1973

J.P. Morgan

1952

Ink, pencil, watercolor on cardboard

25¾ x 17¾

ADOLF HOFFMEISTER

Czech, 1902-1973

Rockefeller on Friday, October 24, 1929 (Black Friday)

1952

Ink, sprayed ink, pencil, watercolor on cardboard

17¾ x 26

NAUM KARPOVSKY

1907-1978

"Glory to the great October leaders!"

1952

Lithograph

21¼ x 29¾

ALEXANDER ZHITOMIRSKY

Russian, 1907-1993

"Candidate of the Democratic Party/Candidate of the Republican Party"

1952

Photomontage

17¼ x 12

ALEXANDER ZHITOMIRSKY

Russian, 1907-1993

Capitalism with its friendly Dean Acheson mask

1952

Photomontage

17¼ x 13½

LEV HAAS

Czech, 1901-1983

"Do not trust him! The kulak is the most hardened enemy of socialism"

1953

Lithograph

33 x 21¼

WOLFGANG SCHLOSSER

Czech, 1913-1984

"Firm Foundation: Fy Adenauer, formerly Adolf Hitler & Co."

1953

Lithograph

23¼ x 16½

LEV HAAS

Czech, 1901-1983

"There: elections are directed by monopolistic American agents; Here: free elections such as never before during the bourgeois regime"

1954

Lithograph

20 x 32¾

ANTONÍN PELC

Czech, 1895-1967

"Peace! Away with the shameful Paris Agreements! Away with the remilitarization of Western Germany!"

1954

Lithograph

16¾ x 11¾

VIKTOR KORETSKY

Ukrainian, 1909-1998

"You will not strangle the freedom of the Arab peoples!"

1958

Lithograph

22 x 33¾

VIKTOR KORETSKY

Ukrainian, 1909-1998

Collective farm workers urge competition

1960

Lithograph

26¼ x 40½