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United Nations – Antique Wall Art

United Nations, [1942] — historic drawing
United Nations, [1942]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of United Nations. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Published in Vogue on May 1, 1942, this caricature by Mexican-born artist Miguel Covarrubias takes its title from the Declaration by United Nations, which 26 Allied nations signed in Washington in January 1942, pledging to fight the Axis powers. Covarrubias was a prolific caricaturist for Vogue and Vanity Fair, known for witty, exaggerated portraits of public figures. The drawing was later shown at the Library of Congress in 2004 in the exhibition Churchill and the Great Republic, which examined Winston Churchill's relationship with the United States.

Created / published[1942]
Medium1 drawing.
GenreCaricatures American.Drawings.
NotesMiguel Covarrubias caricatures / by Beverly J. Cox and Denna Jones Anderson. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. (DLC/PP-1976:R2.33) Published in: Vogue, May 1, 1942. Exhibited in: Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress, 2004. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,058 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176788

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