1944 Print Newport Rhode Island Army Military Patrol WWII Oliver Baker AAF1 OLD3 Museum of Decorative Arts

Museum of Decorative Arts

This is an original 1963 color print ad for the Westinghouse Electric Company located in Pittsburgh

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1944 Print Newport Rhode Island Army Military Patrol WWII Oliver Baker AAF1 OLD3 Museum of Decorative ArtsThis 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