[Linocut of a Soldier with Rifle and Bayonette Prodding People Forward] by Patri, Giacomo

Broadside. Print. Image is 8" x 6" on and 11" x 7.5" sheet. Printed in black on cream paper, recto only. No date but Patri was active from the 1920s-1970s but this is early- to mid-20th century. A powerful print of a soldier holding a rifle behind a group of men, all looking over their shoulders with anger. One man is holding up the frame of a slumping woman. Near fine.

Giacomo Patri was an Italian-born illustrator, painter, instructor who emigrated to San Francisco as a teen. He studied at The California School of Fine Arts. He taught at the California Labor School before it closed, a casualty of McCarthyism. In 1948 he founded his own school, the Patri School for Art Fundamentals which was aimed at teaching adults with no art background. An important artist and educator, today is perhaps most remembered for his 1940 wordless novel, White Collar: A Novel in Linocuts, a story of workers during the Depression.