Are You "Present"? Mather Poster ✓ Fabian Artist: Joe Welch

Artist: Joe Welch

Bank of Rome

Magazine cover shows a boy in a homemade airplane costume about to jump off the garage

a truly American ideal had been preserved in nearly 350 different posters -- that of the importance of capitalism

Are You "Present"? Mather Poster ✓ Fabian Artist: Joe Welch"Are you 'present?' Those who never lay off answer 'present' when opportunity calls the roll. Opportunity may call any day." This Art Deco poster is intensely motivating it reflects a distinctly American value of never giving up on the grind. The 1920s brought in great wealth for America, propaganda posters from World War I and the start of welfare capitalism. It was the perfect environment for Mather and Company work ethic posters to gain popularity.