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Alexander M. Cay
Mothers! Do you want your children to endure the next war that will come from an imposed peace?circa 1920

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Lithograph poster featuring a woman in gray dress and head wrap striding forward with arms outstretched, bold red German text above and Gothic script below

Alexander M. Cay, Mothers! Do you want your children to endure the next war that will come from an imposed peace?, circa 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Alexander M. Cay
Austria, also active Switzerland, 1887-1971
Title
Mothers! Do you want your children to endure the next war that will come from an imposed peace?
Place Made
Germany, Berlin
Date Made
circa 1920
Medium
Lithograph printed in red, black and gray on wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions
Image: 55 1/4 × 36 1/2 in. (140.34 × 92.71 cm) Mat: 57 1/2 × 38 1/2 in. (146.05 × 97.79 cm) Frame: 59 × 40 × 1 7/8 in. (149.86 × 101.6 × 4.76 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
Accession Number
M.2003.114.24
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Benson, Timothy O. and Andrea Gyorody. A New Generation of Creators: Selections from The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017.