This is war, my friend - war! And your nation and mine are throttling each other!

This is war, my friend - war! And your nation and mine are throttling each other!
This is war, my friend - war! And your nation and mine are throttling each other!

This is war, my friend - war! And your nation and mine are throttling each other!

Date1915
Artist (American painter, 1877–1950)
Illustration Citation"The Crucible of Peace," by Thomas H. Uzzell, in The Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1915
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensions12 × 10 5/8 in. (30.5 × 27 cm)
frame: 23 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (59.1 × 54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ellen H. Davidson, 1962
Object number1962-31
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextStanley Arthurs illustrated this story about two scientists - a German and a Russian - sent by their governments to explore the Karakum Desert in central Asia in 1915. This scene depicts the German reading a newspaper, and informing the Russian that war has broken out between their countries.
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