The Roll Call : A Masque of the Red Cross by Percy MacKaye

Place North & Central America: United States of America, New York
Accession Number ARTV01133
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 80.2 x 47.8 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description lithograph on paper
Maker American Red Cross Society
Unknown
Place made United States of America: New York
Date made c.1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

First World War poster advertising 'The Roll Call : A Masque of the Red Cross' a fundraising communal civic theatre performance by American playwright and poet Percy MacKaye (1875 - 1956). It features a photographic image by internationally renowned photographer Arnold Genthe (1869 - 1942) of a woman in a toga reaching up towards the emblem of the Red Cross Society positioned in the upper left corner. Genthe worked in a pictorialist style and favoured the autochrome technique. The image takes up the upper two thirds while the title text printed in black is positioned in the bottom third. Both the image and text are set against a yellow background.

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