1919 War Garden Victorious National War Garden Commission Maginel Wright in Enright Herman Miller The so-called Victory Garden program

The so-called Victory Garden program promoted by this poster was one of the greatest successes of the era with more than five million American war gardens under cultivation by the end of the First World War

For this poster Herter renders an image of American doughboys somewhere in France approaching a YMCA building on winter night with deep snow on the ground and trees around them

The poster has some expert replacement to paper loss at the tip of the lower left hand corner and repair to some short tears at the edges and crease mitigation

Artist: Newman

This vintage original poster shows light handling wear including slight creasing in the image area and a small nick of about 1/8” in depth in the bottom edge

1919 War Garden Victorious National War Garden Commission Maginel Wright in Enright Herman Miller The so-called Victory Garden programDate: 1919 Artist: Wright Enright, Maginel Size (in): 29. 25 x 22. 25 Size (cm): 75. 5 x 56. 5 Condition: B Linen backed: Yes This vintage original WWI era poster is one in series created by the artist Maginel Wright Enright for the National War Garden Commission. Maginel Wright Enright was the younger sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a well established illustrator of children's books herself doing illustration for books by L. Frank Baum and