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For the Preservation of Italy, Guardian of the World’s Most Precious Heritage of Beauty. Italian War Relief Poster
For the Preservation of Italy, Guardian of the World’s Most Precious Heritage of Beauty. Italian War Relief Poster

For the Preservation of Italy, Guardian of the World’s Most Precious Heritage of Beauty. Italian War Relief Poster

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Object Details

Title:
For the Preservation of Italy, Guardian of the World’s Most Precious Heritage of Beauty. Italian War Relief Poster
Date:
1918
Artist:
Medium:
Lithograph
Dimensions
15 x 1 l in.
Classification
Banners, Posters, Brochures
Credit Line:
Gift of Patricia Likos Ricci, 2017
Description

Oakley designed this poster to benefit the Italian Relief Auxiliary of the American Red Cross.

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The Violet Oakley Experience is funded by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
For her expertise and scholarship on The Violet Oakley Experience, Woodmere thanks Patricia Likos Ricci. The foremost authority on Oakley, she is the Director of the Department of Fine Arts, Associate Professor of the History of Art, and a member of the Women and Gender Studies faculty at Elizabethtown College.
Woodmere’s website infrastructure and the digitization of the Museum’s collection are made possible by the generous support of Lisa Kabnick and John McFadden.