[Red Cross nurse seeing vision of wounded soldiers across stormy sea]

Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": William Allen Rogers Pays Tribute to Wartime Nurses. A moving vision of wounded soldiers needing care sustains a Red Cross nurse on her storm-tossed voyage to the war front. William Allen Rogers extols the courage and selfless patriotism of nurses in this and other drawings that also specifically reference the dangers they faced in German attacks on hospital ships. He may have created this image for a poster as notes on the back of the drawing state it was "sent to [the] American Red Cross Second War Fund." Known primarily for his scenes of the American West, Rogers focused on cartooning after 1900 and created poster designs during World War I.
Title devised by cataloger.
Signed on lower left corner.
Inscribed on verso: Send proof to American Red Cross Second War Fund, 44 E 23rd St., Room 517. Send plate to Western NY Union.
Inscribed on verso: Used drawing.
Accompanied by typewritten note adhered to verso: Artist W.A. Rogers, original to be returned to: Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity, Room 1203, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
(DLC/PP-1932:0042).
Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 2016 - May 2017.