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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
This Is the Enemy
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

This Is the Enemy

Object numberMO 2005.13.20.40
Name Poster
Artist (American, 1913 - 2000)
Artist (Syrian-American, 1912 - 1998)
Printer (American, founded 1904)
Printer (American, 1805 - 1984)
Date1942
Mediumpaper, ink
Dimensionsoverall H 34 1/4 in x W 24 in (87 cm x 61 cm )
DescriptionA color offset lithograph poster featuring a caricature portrait of a Nazi officer in uniform and wearing a monocle. Reflected in the glass of the monocle is a figure hanging from a gallows. The artists' names are printed in the lower right corner of the image: KOEHLER / ANCONA. Handwritten in ink in the lower left corner of the image: To President Franklin D. Roosevelt / From Artists for Victory / J. Scott Williams / Irwin D. Hoffman. The title of the poster is below the illustration: This is the Enemy.

Additional black text below the title reads: WINNER R. HOE & CO., INC. AWARD – NATIONAL WAR POSTER COMPETITION / HELD UNDER AUSPICES OF ARTISTS FOR VICTORY, INC. - COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRACY - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / REPRODUCED THROUGH COURTESY OF R. HOE & CO., INC., NEW YORK, N. Y. / © R. HOE & CO., INC. / LITHOGRAPHED IN U. S. A. ON HOE SUPER-OFFSET PRESS BY GRINNELL LITHOGRAPHIC CO., NEW YORK, N. Y.

Label TextThis poster was a winning entry in a national poster competition held in 1942 by Artists for Victory, the Council for Democracy, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Two hundred posters (selected from over 2,200 entries) were displayed in the museum. Victor Ancona studied art at the Parsons School of Design and worked as a commercial artist and—after the war—as an advertising executive. He was an army private at the time of the competition. Little is known about Karl Koehler.
Additional Details
Custodial History NoteDonated to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by the Adriance Memorial Library.
Credit LineGift of the Adriance Memorial Library
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesOriginal Posters from World War I and World War II (National Archives Identifier 739394)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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