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Image Title: Sunrise Or Sunset Own A Liberty Bond, 1917

Creator: De Land, Eugenie, 1872-, artist

Date: 1917

Summary: Design drawing for a poster showing the Statue of Liberty with the sky in the background illuminated as the American flag.

Notes: Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Eugenie De Land's Design for Liberty Bond Poster. One of the few female artists designing posters during the war, Eugenie De Land drew this original watercolor design for her second Liberty Loan poster. Its message suggests that the viewer's actions determine whether the sun rises or sets as the evening sky transforms into an American flag over the Statue of Liberty. De Land studied under illustrator Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry before beginning her thirty-five-year career as an art teacher. She taught in Washington, D.C., at the Corcoran School of Art and McKinley High School before retiring in 1942.|Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, , Washington, D.C., May - November 2016.

Subjects: Flags--American--1910-1920
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920
War bonds & funds--1910-1920
World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States

Original Media: Drawing|Poster

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