Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Reveille
1918
Pen and black ink over graphite, on illustration board.
14 11/16 x 10 7/16 inches (374 x 265 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1639
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Below image: The New Dawn, Life Triumphant over Death.
Poster design for the quarterly publication, Reveille.

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Signed and dated at lower right, "Edmund J. Sullivan. 1918"; at head, "Reveille"; at foot, "The New Dawn, Life Triumphant over Death".

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Design shows an angel, with sword and trumpet, standing triumphantly over the fallen skeletal figure of Death, with the sun rising in the background.

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