Home Front
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 432 x 330 mm paper: 508 x 406 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.3408
Art Historical Context
**Home Front** is a poignant lithograph by American artist Florence Elliott White McClung, created in 1943 amid the height of World War II. Measuring 432 x 330 mm (image) on a 508 x 406 mm sheet of paper, this print from the National Gallery of Art's Reba and Dave Williams Collection evokes the resilience of everyday Americans on the home front. Generously gifted by collectors Reba and Dave Williams, it resides in the CG-W Department, classified simply yet evocatively as a print. The year 1943 places this work squarely in the era of global conflict, when the U.S. home front buzzed with patrio...