Like many in the group of designers approved by the OWI, John Atherton was both a commercial and a fine artist, and his posters appear more painterly than many of their European equivalents. This poster relies on the artist’s trademark browns and other muted colors, appropriate to the solemn subject matter. In 1941, another of his poster designs was awarded first prize in the National Defense Poster Competition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.