A. O. Wakcunid
Russian, 20th century
War Bonds
INV-7795
A. O. Wakcunid
Russian, 20th century1916
posterprint
Date
1916
Medium
Color lithograph on paper
Dimensions
65.5 × 91.5 cm (25 3/4 × 36 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Brown Robertson Fund
The imperial eagle of the Russian czar flutters behind this incarnation of a medieval Russian knight on horseback, evoking the valiant victories of the past to inspire heroic action in the present. Though censored for decades following the 1917 Russian Revolution, this type of imperial iconography experienced a resurgence during World War II, though under a much different regime—the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union.
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