Have you a Red Cross service flag (1918)
Jessie Willcox Smith1918 · Portrait · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1935)
Specifications
- Year
- 1918
- Nationality / school
- American
- Lifespan
- 1863–1935
About the artwork
This page presents "Have you a Red Cross service flag" (1918), created by Jessie Willcox Smith. The catalogue places it in Vintage Posters. The format is portrait. Vintage Posters in brief: Posters announced theatre, travel, products, and events, combining image and lettering to be read at a glance from the street. Colour lithography in the 1890s turned the illustrated poster into a major art form, and cities such as Paris and Prague became centres of poster design. About the period around 1918: Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. The first decades of the twentieth century were a period of rapid experiment, with Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and the first abstract painting appearing within a few years of each other.
"Have you a Red Cross service flag" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A portrait format suits narrow wall spaces, hallways, and the area beside a door or window. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
American, 1863–1935
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