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The 9 square puzzle using the
fine poster image by American artist James Flagg (1877-1960). When the puzzle is complete,
you will jump to a 16 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by
clicking the red square. Information about the artist can be found below.
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The 16 square puzzle using the fine poster image by American artist James Flagg. When the
puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 25 square puzzle with the same image. You can go
there directly by clicking the red square.
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The 25 square puzzle using the fine poster image by American artist James Flagg. When the
puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 36 square puzzle with the same image. You can go
there directly by clicking the red square.
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The 36 square puzzle using the fine poster image by American artist James Flagg. When the
puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 49 square puzzle with the same image. You can go
there directly by clicking the red square.
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The 49 square puzzle using the fine poster image by American artist James Flagg. Information about the artist can be found below.
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The applet permits up to a ten square puzzle. If there is any interest in my listing a puzzle of greater difficulty, drop me a line and I'll add it in. The image that I have used for the puzzle (I had to remove the framing due to size limitations) can be seen here.
Some months before the events of September 11, 2001, I had created a fine three image "Lake Applet" page on the subject of U.S. Veteran's Day. But I cannot show it to you. The photographer concerned has not, alas, responded to my e-mail messages. It happens. And when it does, I do not know if my usage of the images is not considered appropriate or my messages simply got junked. Such is life! So here I present a puzzle page in a similar vein, using the major portion of the famous World War I recruitment poster "I Want You for (the) U.S. Army". It is, as every American will know, the work of U.S. artist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960). The Webmaster first uplinked this page on Veteran's Day (U.S.) or Remembrance Day (Canada) i.e. November 11, 2001.
As for "American Gothic", I expected to be able to find on the WWW some large and good quality images of the work. The poster was issued in many millions of copies in 1917/18 and was indeed reissued during World War II. Here, in PDF format, is the best rendition of the Flagg poster that I could find. (On page 5 of 17.) Anyway here is a portion of what is probably the most famous poster ever issued, certainly in the United States.
The Webmaster is mindful that for many visitors, the loading of each page will be slower the more data I provide. I have located lots of biographical data about the artist, and created some large thumbnail images that I think may be of interest to most visitors. And links galore! So that data is on a separate page which I invite you to visit.
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The java applet that runs the puzzle is courtesy of Axel Fontaine, who lives (or lived?) just south of the city of Brussels in Belgium. Axel invited free use of his fine applet which you can, I hope, download here. Axel, we thank you!
