folded sheet of paper, with the title "FREE WORLD OR SLAVE WORLD" and text on back side; colorful image on the front that is divided into two halves; left side depicts a couple, with the male figure on left side, holding a child on shoulders, and a female figure wearing a yellow shirt and red skirt, holding a bundle of grain in PL which is raised above her head, and a yellow basket in PR hand; blue sky in background with small hill shapes on horizon line; green grass with yellow field behind figures; right side is rendered in brown pigment, with a small demon like figure in white, holding a whip that is raised above the head in PR hand; group of cowering figures in lower right edge; large swastika in sky, flanked by mountains

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Free World or Slave World, 1943

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Hugo Gellert was one of America’s leading political artists of the first half of the 1900s. He dedicated his art to the advancement of socialist ideals. In 1943, in the depths of World War II, he produced a portfolio of nineteen screenprints entitled “Century of the Common Man,” which served as a visual manifesto of his values. Each plate was devoted to one or two basic ideas; here, the nobility of free labor and the danger to it posed by fascism.

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Title
Free World or Slave World
Artist Life
American (born Hungary), 1892–1985
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2018.131.1
Provenance
Mary Ryan and Bruce Lebowitz, New York; given to MIA, 2018.
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folded sheet of paper, with the title "FREE WORLD OR SLAVE WORLD" and text on back side; colorful image on the front that is divided into two halves; left side depicts a couple, with the male figure on left side, holding a child on shoulders, and a female figure wearing a yellow shirt and red skirt, holding a bundle of grain in PL which is raised above her head, and a yellow basket in PR hand; blue sky in background with small hill shapes on horizon line; green grass with yellow field behind figures; right side is rendered in brown pigment, with a small demon like figure in white, holding a whip that is raised above the head in PR hand; group of cowering figures in lower right edge; large swastika in sky, flanked by mountains

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