Study, Red Cross Nurse Leading Soldier
Date1918
Artist
Frederick Coffay Yohn
(American artist, 1875–1933)
Illustration CitationRelated to “Battlefront Pictures,” for Scribner’s, October 1918
MediumGraphite and charcoal on paper
Dimensions8 1/2 × 12 3/8 in. (21.6 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 2022
Object number2022-90
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis sketch seems to depict a battlefield nurse leading a soldier blinded by a mustard gas attack. The artist depicted both a gas attack and Red Cross nurses in battlefield pictures reproduced in Scribner's Monthly.An illustration titled Red Cross Workers is captioned: "The heroism of the Red Cross nurses has been unsurpassed. During the bombing of hospitals they have refused to leave their posts, but have remained to carry the wounded out of the wreckage to places of safety."
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
not dated
