Strakhov's lithographic masterwork
Protest Posters: | Alice's Tea and Yellowcake 1977 | Garage Graphics | Getting a head on the dole 1982 | Joe Gomez 1967-8 | International Women's Day 1920+ | Mary Callaghan 1975-89 | Ooh Aah Dance Poster 1979 | OZ magazine 1964-71 | Paris May 68 | Redback Graphix 1979-2002 | Steel City Pictures | Toby Zoates 1977-2024 | Yanni Stumbles 1980-86 | Witchworks, Wollongong 1980-84 | Wollongong in Posters I , II | In 1920, during the early Civil War period of the Russian revolution, a poster was published by Ukraine-born artist, graphic designer and sculptor Adolf Iosifovich Strakhov Braslavsky (1896-1979) celebrating International Women's Day on 8 March of that year (Dickerman 1996). Adolf Strakhov, 8 March - Day of Emancipation of Women , lithograph poster in four colours, 1920. Signed 'A. Strakhov 1920' lower left. In it a stern looking, androgynous female figure - perhaps a young woman in her twenties - stands at the ready to commence work in the m...