Place | North & Central America: United States of America, New York |
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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
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The Roll Call : A Masque of the Red Cross by Percy MacKaye
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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