Poster by artist Nina Vatolina. Soviet poster. Slogan: "More grain for the front and the home front! Harvest the entire crop!" Second edition. Poster artist: Nina Vatolina. Please look closely: this is the second edition of the poster. The first edition was released at the beginning of World War II. Original vintage item; a rare Soviet wartime poster. Features a woman. Nina Vatolina.
very good condition. Please see the photos. Poster dimensions: 58.5 x 44 cm. Published in the USSR. Second edition. Artists: Nina Vatolina and Denisov.
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Nina Nikolaevna Vatolina ( March 6 ( 19 ) , 1915 , Kolomna , Russian Empire  – August 12 , 2002 , Moscow , Russia ) was a Russian artist, painter, graphic artist, poster artist, and writer.   

Biography

She was born into a military family; her paternal grandfather was a civil servant and nobleman. Her father was repressed in July 1937.

From 1932 to 1936, she studied at the Moscow Art College at OGIZ , taking lessons from graphic artist Viktor Deni . In the pre-war period, she produced several posters in collaboration with her husband, Viktor Deni's son, graphic artist Nikolai Viktorovich Denisov: "KIM. 20 Years of the Komsomol" (1938), "All Power in the USSR Belongs to the Working People of the City and Village" (1939), "Long Live May 1st!" (1939). In collaboration with N. Denisov and poster artists V. and Z. Pravdin, she participated in the creation of a poster about childhood, "Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for a Happy Childhood!" (1938). In 1939, she produced the poster "Thank you, dear Stalin, for a Happy Childhood!"

In 1942 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Art (student of A. A. Deineka, G. G. Ryazhsky).

During the Great Patriotic War, together with Nikolai Denisov, she created the widely known poster " Don't chatter! " (1941), printed in millions of copies. During the war, Vatolina created famous posters: "Fascism is the worst enemy of women. Everyone to the fight against fascism!", "Citizens of the Soviet Union, hand over warm clothes for the Red Army, courageously fighting the fascist gangs!", "More bread for the front and the rear. Harvest completely!", "Glory to the Mother Heroine!", "For our great Motherland!" (1944), "Comrade soldier, remember!" (1945), "Wait with victory" (1945), "We are waiting with victory!" (1945), "You bravely fought the enemy - enter, master, into your new home!" (1945), "Hello, Motherland!" (1945).

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, she continued working on posters, creating political and social posters: "Long live the people's candidate for deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the great Stalin!", "Stalin - our first candidate for deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR" (1946), "Thank you, dear Stalin, for a happy childhood!" (1950), "Long live the great party of Lenin-Stalin, the mind, honor and conscience of our era!" (1952), "To school!", "To life - to reason and light!" (1950), "A pioneer is a good comrade" (1950), "Welcome!" (1956), "A teacher is a friend and mentor of our children!" (1956), "Let the kindergarten in every collective farm surround the children with love!" (1958), “Mothers are working, work is going well - collective farm nurseries take care of children” (1958), “The Pioneer loves to work and takes care of the people’s property” (1960) and many others.

Nina Vatolina created hundreds of popular posters, which became part of the golden collection of Soviet propaganda art. She participated in all-Union exhibitions, and in 1957 and 1968, Vatolina held solo exhibitions in Moscow.

Nina Vatolina's works are held in museums in Russia and abroad, and in private Russian and foreign galleries and collections.

She was buried in Moscow at the Rogozhskoye Cemetery