CHAIM GROSS - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 250756

CHAIM GROSS
Signed FDC championing the "New International Economic Order," bearing a cachet designed by Gross
First Day Cover signed: "Chaim Gross", 6½x3¾. FDC honoring the New International Economic Order, 15-cent United Nations stamp affixed, postmarked United Nations, NY, January 11, 1980, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Cachet pictures his watercolor designed for the World Federation of United Nations Associations. Austrian-born graphic artist and sculptor Chaim Gross (1904-1991), who settled in the U.S. in 1921, is best known for his lively, naturalistic figure compositions carved in wood. His sculptures also include works in stone and bronze, and his common subjects for both his sculptures and other art works (which include covers for the United Nations) include circus performers, animals, female figures and Jewish tradition. Gross, who served as President of the Sculptors Guild of America, was the father of sculptor Mimi Gross. The New International Economic Order was a set of proposals by Third World nations to improve the terms of trade for less developed countries. Many of these principles commanded majority support in the UN General Assembly, where each nation has one vote, but without the active cooperation of the major economic powers like the US, or of the multi-national corporations, most of this design was never implemented. "Haloing" of ink. Fine condition.