The Comforter
1918
Artist
Gordon Grant
DIMENSIONS
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.59
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Children, Nurse, Political, Red Cross, United States, War, White, Woman, WWI
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Peter A. Blatz
KEYWORDS
Children, Nurse, Political, Red Cross, United States, War, White, Woman, WWI
Issued by the American Red Cross during World War I, this poster shows one of the relief organization’s ambulances moving across a war-ravaged landscape in the background. In the foreground, a Red Cross nurse holds an infant and comforts the despairing mother at her feet. Like many Red Cross posters of this period, it highlights a nurturing woman assisting wounded and vulnerable victims of war. Gordon Grant was a marine painter and illustrator who had worked for such publications as Harper’s Weekly and Puck. He produced illustrations for a number of posters encouraging donations to and membership of the Red Cross during and immediately after the war.
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