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Rising World Mood for War [An Allegory on Italy and Ethiopia]

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Rising World Mood for War [An Allegory on Italy and Ethiopia]

1935 or 1936

Morris Graves

born Fox Valley, Oregon, 1910; died Loleta, California, 2001

Transparent and opaque watercolor on Japanese paper
13 1/2 x 17 7/8 in. (34.3 x 45.4 cm)
Gift of Deborah Cornue, Michael Cornue and Martha Hurlburt, in loving memory of their parents Gordon and Hazel Cornue
2016.16
Provenance: The artist, to his friend Evelyn Hurspool, Seattle, probably October 1937; by gift to Frank (Gordon) Cornue and Hazel Lehman Cornue, October 1937; descended in the family to their children
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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