"I'd give you all I have, if I had anything to give," said Sherring

© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reprod…
© Artist or Artist's Estate
"I'd give you all I have, if I had anything to give," said Sherring
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

"I'd give you all I have, if I had anything to give," said Sherring

Date1933
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1892–1960)
Illustration Citation"Seven Men Came Back," by Warwick Deeping, in Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, April 1934
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions34 1/4 × 45 1/4 in. (87 × 114.9 cm)
frame: 47 1/2 x 58 1/2 in. (120.7 x 148.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-172
On View
On view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextDean Cornwell imparted a mood of gravity to this story about struggle and mutual support from the bleak years of the Great Depression.

The vignette style here, with an irregularly shaped illustration floating in white space, allowed for the integration of text and image.