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1945

It's Later Than You Think

Rockwell Kent

American, 1882 - 1971

Kent wrote that this lithograph, which he has here inscribed “Wake up, America!”, was intended “to call attention to the decay of the structure of democracy that threatens while the citizen sleeps.” The initials inscribed on the post behind the sleeping allegory of the American man are those of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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Rockwell Kent, It's Later Than You Think, 1945 | Philadelphia Art Museum