Give or We Perish

Give or We Perish
Give or We Perish

Give or We Perish

Date1917
Artist (American illustrator, 1873–1948)
Illustration CitationPoster issued by the American Committee for Relief in the Near East
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 33 1/4 × 22 1/4 in. (84.5 × 56.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-647
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextWladislaw Benda popularized the “Benda Girl”―a slightly more exotic version of the “Gibson Girl”―in magazine illustration and brought her image to this poster, which sought emergency aid for victims of the humanitarian crisis caused by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I.

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