Glamour. [1936 Lithograph by Lydia Gibson]

United States, 1936. Lithographic illustration measuring 12 x 13 ¾ inches. Unnumbered, titled and signed recto in pencil, matching handwriting of other known examples. Near Fine.. A lithograph by American socialist artist Lydia Gibson (1891–1964). Gibson contributed artworks to radical publications including The Masses, The Liberator, New Masses, and others. This illustration, titled Glamour, depicts two well-dressed gentlemen labeled “Banks” and “Munitions” courting a bejewelled lady skeleton whose tiara reads “War”. More than a straightforward pacifist sentiment, Gibson makes the now-familiar critique that industries that stand to profit off of war will ‘court’ it. A striking piece of twentieth-century socialist art.