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Show Artist and Model for 1930 Red Cross Poster IT V , '"r , x, , . j ' L - i 4 . J ti vw. , , j 4 - , - ' i 7 - : Pi.'', v - J J f 1 ' " - , ' i ' v , , ' ! Mr. Lawrence "Wilbur, shown in 7ns Veto York studio, painting the poster c7iic7i is nscJ in the 1D"0 Roll Call of the American lied Cross, to uroe every one to 10m as a member this year. Three hundred thousand ot Mr. Wilbur's posters will be distributed in November to remind the public of the annual roll call for members of the Red Cross. A SYMBOLICAL figure Is selected se-lected each year to represent the American Red Cross and its service to the nation, for wide distribution in poster form during the organization's annual appeal for members, at the period of its Roll Call. Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing Day. A poster competition is held, in which prominent artists of the United States participate, and a committee selects the painting which shall carry the Red Cross message for that year. Lawrence Wilbur, a distinguished artist, with studio iu New York, is the creator this year of the magnifi-cont magnifi-cont figure representing the spirit of moth ood and of the Red Cross, hovering over the world. The 'phrase "The Greatest Mother" was first applied ap-plied to the Red Cross during the World War, by the soldiers ou the battlefield and in hospital. All of the great poster artists of America have at one period or an-other an-other since 1017 presented their conception con-ception of the spirit of the Red Cross. An early poster by Howard Chandler Christy, entitled "The Spirit of America." and one by Harrison Fisher, depicting a Red Cross nurse, are on exhibition in the original in the Red Cross museum in Washington, Washing-ton, together with other c-.-iginals. The first creation of "Tho Greatest Great-est Mother" was by A. E. Foringer and was considered the most appealing appeal-ing poster ever used by the Red Cross. It showed a spiritual mother-figure, mother-figure, holding in her arms a wounded wound-ed soldier, on a stretcher. Many artists have used the figure of a. Red Cross nurse, until these! two. ideas the spiritual "greatest mother," and the symbolical angel ot mercy, the Red Cross nurse have visualized to the American public, all of the service that the Red Cross is organized to extend. |