id:			98202
accession number:	1917.886
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.886
updated:		2025-02-08 22:35:31.665000

The Stars and Stripes in the Service of Humanity, c. 1917. Louis Raemaekers (Belgian, 1869–1956). Black chalk and watercolor with traces of white paint; framing lines in black chalk; sheet: 55.7 x 38.4 cm (21 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1917.886

title:				The Stars and Stripes in the Service of Humanity
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creation date:			c. 1917
creation date earliest:		1917
creation date latest:		1917
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culture:	Belgium, 20th century
technique:	black chalk and watercolor with traces of white paint; framing lines in black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Belgian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Louis Raemaekers (Belgian, 1869–1956)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 55.7 x 38.4 cm (21 15/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
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	description:	cream(3) wove paper
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	inscription:	signed, lower right, in black chalk: Louis Raemaekers.- ; by artist, along lower right edge, in black chalk: The Stars & Stripes in the service of Humanity. ; [by artist?], left center, in black chalk: Land & Water. [crossed out, sideways] ; VERSO, upper left, in black chalk: 27. [circled] I. ; upper center, in graphite: 1567 [sideways] ; right center, in graphite: 1634 [circled, upside down] ; lower left, in graphite: 3 [illegible] W.D. / 6 1/4" wide ; lower left, in graphite: A 29 [circled] ; lower right, in graphite: 16 3/4 x 24 [underlined]
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	[Brown-Robertson Company]
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Blashfield, Edwin Howland. "The Value of Carroll Beckwith's Copies." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 8 (1917): 143-51.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 151
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136139

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