The Past is Behind Us, The Future is Ahead. Let Us All Strive to Make the Future Better and Brighter than the Past Ever Was. / Gerrit A. Beneker / A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore (printer)

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Accession Number: 1954/2.35.6
Title: The Past is Behind Us, The Future is Ahead. Let Us All Strive to Make the Future Better and Brighter than the Past Ever Was.
Artist: Gerrit A. Beneker
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: 1882-1934
Medium and Support: color lithograph on paper
Object Creation Date: 1918
Object Creation Place: North and Central America (continent); United States (nation)
Creation Place 1: North and Central America (continent)
Creation Place 2: United States (nation)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Maurice F. Lyons
Style/Group/Movement: poster
Dimensions: 50.5 cm x 38 cm (19 7/8 in. x 14 15/16 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Object Classification: Print
Primary Object Type: chromolithograph
Primary Keywords: hands; helmet; males; posters; soldier; standing; wars; world war i
Secondary Keywords: armed conflicts; army; declaratory and advertising artifacts; events; figures; how we live; human body; information artifacts; information artifacts by function; information forms; military; modern and contemporary art; objects; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; soldiers; text-based art; the natural world; war; world wars
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 990 x 1331
File Size: 96 KB
Record: 1954/2.35.6
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.35.6/1954_2.35.6.jpg

In public portfolios: O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Race, gender, class and American identity (393); Work and workers (328); WWI and society (221); WWI posters (179)

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Full citation: "The Past is Behind Us, The Future is Ahead. Let Us All Strive to Make the Future Better and Brighter than the Past Ever Was.; Gerrit A. Beneker; A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore (printer)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-2.35.6/1954_2.35.6.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.