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An example of work by Anna Milo Upjohn
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in 1868 in Dover, New Jersey, Anna Milo Upjohn studied art in Munich, Florence, and Paris from 1893-1899 and then returned for further European studies from 1909 to 1914. At the outbreak of the First World War, Upjohn immediately went to France and volunteered for relief work helping refugees under the Fund for Devastated Villages. When the American Red Cross decided it needed an illustrator, she joined its staff. Beginning in 1918, she created a series of health posters for the American Red Cross Children's Bureau, and in 1919 she was commissioned by the American Red Cross to visit those European countries where the Junior Red Cross was at work.
In 1921, she became the staff artist for the American Junior Red Cross. As part of her responsibilities, she made an international tour, sketching the children of the world whose pictures she published in a book entitled "Friends in Strange Garments".
Anna Milo Upjohn was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and received the Elliott Medal from the National Academy of Design. The Red Cross Fine Arts Collection currently includes 52 of her works. Many others were disbursed shortly after they were produced, and their present location is unknown.
The Anna Milo Upjohn Collection (1868-1951)
Web site of the American Red Cross
www.redcross.org/museum/vmuseum |
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