Transportnik! Gotov' vagony k khlebnym perevozkam . . . [Transport Worker! Service the Cars Before Using Them to Transport Bread] . A poster attributed to Meir Axelrod (see below), Tsektran Publishing Section, Moscow, [1922], 62 x88 cm.

The caption at the bottom of the poster reads Poor Maintenance Is a Crime Before the Country. The poster is signed Axelrod; tentatively attributed to the Moscow artist Meir Axelrod, a student of Favorsky at VKHUTEIN at the time. Several articles about the artist mention that as a youth he supported himself by producing posters, but this attribution is not definitive; another possible name that comes to mind is that of the graphic artist Arii Axelrod, whose lithographed portraits of Soviet leaders were mass produced throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

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