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A Lois White

Study for War Makers

1937

Artwork Information

Writing about 'War Makers', Lois White commented: "The main idea behind the composition in question is the injustice done to youth, by the decision of those older generation to have wars and send their sons to be slaughtered and maimed, while many grow fat on the proceeds. Financiers, money-grubbers, politicians, the thoughtless type of patriotism, are contributing factors which I have tried to suggest, with helpless youth being torn from equally helpless youth and home."

Title
Study for War Makers
Production Date
1937
Medium
watercolour
Dimensions
230 x 315 mm
Credit Line
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2012
Accession No
2012/6
Copyright
Copying restrictions apply
Department
New Zealand Art
Display Status
Not on display

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