Sure We'll Finish the Job
Date1918
Artist
Gerrit Albertus Beneker
(American painter and illustrator, 1882–1934)
Printer/Printmaker
Edwards & Deutsch, Lithographing Co.
(Chicago printing company, begun 1896)
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 36 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (92.7 × 62.2 cm)
sheet: 37 3/8 × 25 9/16 in. (94.9 × 64.9 cm)
sheet: 37 3/8 × 25 9/16 in. (94.9 × 64.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-379
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis is the most famous poster by Gerrit Beneker, who was hired in 1918 as an Expert Aid in the United States Navy to produce illustrations for the war effort. This image sold over three million copies. After the war, he worked on various corporate programs to improve labor relations. For these projects, his subjects were designed to dignify industrial workers, an approach recognizable in this poster as well. 
