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Answer the Christmas roll call
1915 · Commercial color lithograph
Sheet: 11 in. × 20 7/8 in. (28 × 53.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Alonzo Earl Foringer
American, 1878–1948
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Alonzo Earl Foringer was an American painter whose reputation rests on a single iconic work: The Greatest Mother in the World, a Red Cross recruitment poster from World War I. The image, depicting a nurse cradling a wounded soldier, became one of the war's most widely distributed visual narratives, establishing Foringer's place in the history of American propaganda art and institutional visual communication. Beyond this landmark poster, little is widely documented of his broader practice or institutional exhibitions.
Source: Aic · Trust score: 95% · Updated 1mo ago
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- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
- The Met1 published
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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