Edmund Shea

Avoid Drafts

1967

A soldier wrapped in a blanket soaks his feet in a bucket beneath the words "Avoid drafts."
A soldier wrapped in a blanket soaks his feet in a bucket beneath the words "Avoid drafts."

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Date
1967

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 28 7/16 × 22 1/8 in. (72.2 × 56.2 cm) Image: 28 7/16 × 22 1/8 in. (72.2 × 56.2 cm)

Accession number
2017.10.213

Publication
Published by American Newsrepeat Company

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President

Rights and reproductions
©Edmund Joseph Shea, Jr. Trust

API
artworks/56401

Part of a series:
Daniel Wolf Collection of Protest Posters
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Edmund Shea
4 works in the collection, 1 exhibition

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