1944 Print Newport Rhode Island Army Military Patrol WWII Oliver Baker AAF1 OLD3 farm field

farm field

This is an original 1914 halftone print by English artist Seymour Lucas

British artists James Manson and William and Ben Nicholson

33rd Division

Photograph by Leni Riefenstahl

1944 Print Newport Rhode Island Army Military Patrol WWII Oliver Baker AAF1 OLD3 farm fieldThis is an original 1944 World War II halftone print of military patrol in Newport, Rhode Island, shortly after Pearl Harbor. A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Corporal Oliver Baker came to the United States, where he received his art education from the Pratt Institute, the Art Students League. Thereafter, Baker studied in Paris. Later, he became assistant to the Treasury Relief Art Project. He, then, was commissioned by the Federal Arts Project