Custer's Last Fight

St. Louis, MO: Anheuser Busch, Inc, 1952. Chromolithograph [61 cm x 96.5 cm] / [24" x 38"] in attractive gilt wooden frame [73.5 cm x 108 cm] / [29" x 42.5"] with the original printed Anheuser-Busch title plate at the foot. Bright. This has not been examined out of the frame. 'O. Becker' at the lower right corner. Printed by Milwaukee Lithographic & Engraving Company. Custer's Last Fight is considered one the most popular lithographs of the late 19th and 20th Centuries, and was displayed in countless saloons, dining establishments, and barber shops. This print was used as an advertising promotion for Anheuser Busch. This work is based on the Cassilly Adams painting which in turn was inspired by the narrative of the battle by Crow Scout, Curley, along with the John Mulvany 1881 painting Custer's Last Fight .This image depicts the battle between Custer's troops and Native American warriors at Little Big Horn. Custer is featured at center waving a saber and dressed in a fringed buckskin. The remaining cavalry officers, except for Custer's brother Tom, are dressed in military uniform. The Native Americans are armed with scalping knives, tomahawks, clubs, spears, and rifles, with the dead in foreground.