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Martha Sawyers
United China Relief, ca 1944
Poster illustration for the United China Relief Foundation
Martha Sawyers was born and raised in Cuero, Texas. After moving to New York City to study at the Art Students League, she moved farther afield to a region that had long fascinated her: the Far East. She settled in Beijing but returned to the United States after Japan's 1937 invasion of China and was commissioned by such magazines as Collier's and Liberty to focus on the Asian subjects she cared so deeply about. Toward the end of World War II, Sawyers returned to China as a US Army was correspondent. This sensitive portrayal of a Chinese family suffering the impacts of war appeared on a United States Relief Foundations poster. Aid to the war-torn country was a popular cause in the United States. |