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Soviet Eruption

Soviet Eruption
Name: 
DRAWING
Soviet Eruption
1944
Country: 
United States
Accession: 
XX1990.3381
John McGaw Artist
Collection: 
Object
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
War and Political Propaganda
Subject: 
War/Military , Anti-Nazism , Figurative , Newspapers/Press , Propaganda , World War II 1940-1945 , Communism/Socialism
Inches 22 14-3/4, Centimeters 55.9 37.5
Credit Line: 
The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
URL: 
XX1990.3381.JPG
Tags: 
War and Political Propaganda~Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Gouache, colored pencil, graphite and ink on paper drawing depicting a volcano with cannon "mouth" spewing soldiers into Eastern Europe; hammer and sickle carved into the volcano; this was done for the Cleveland News.
Soviet Eruption
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  • Title :     Soviet Eruption
  • Artist:     John McGaw Artist
  • Accession:     XX1990.3381
  • Country:     United States
  • Date:     1944
  • Dimensions:     Inches 22 14-3/4, Centimeters 55.9 37.5
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     War/Military , Anti-Nazism , Figurative , Newspapers/Press , Propaganda , World War II 1940-1945 , Communism/Socialism
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     XX1990.3381.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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Gouache, colored pencil, graphite and ink on paper drawing depicting a volcano with cannon "mouth" spewing soldiers into Eastern Europe; hammer and sickle carved into the volcano; this was done for the Cleveland News.
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