Moor’s Civil War recruitment poster — a Red Army soldier pointing directly at the viewer, the question printed beneath him in bold red type. One of the most direct pieces of Soviet graphic design of the Civil War period, and — unlike some of this wing’s other candidates — cleanly hosted on Commons with no outstanding Russian-copyright caveat (Moor died in 1946). The pointing hand is the entire composition’s vanishing point — every line in the poster leads to it. A question aimed at whoever is standing in front of it.

Maker: Dmitry Moor
Date: 1920
Medium of the original: Political poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00879

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	417	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
12 x 16 in	284	Excellent	Trimmed 9%
12 x 18 in	278	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
16 x 24 in	208	Excellent	Trimmed 2.3%
18 x 24 in	189	Good	Trimmed 9%
20 x 30 in	166	Good	Trimmed 2.3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
24 x 36 in	139 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged