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Image:
12.00" x 16.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
17.50" x 21.50"
Fair Faces of Courage Framed Print
by Karen Wilson
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Fair Faces of Courage framed print by Karen Wilson. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Dedicated to the women of American Legion Post 28... more
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Dedicated to the women of American Legion Post 28
When this painting was first conceptualized, the thought was to do a parallel to the Norman Rockwell painting depicting soldiers in the American army through the annals of time. After starting the research, it was found that even though some women served in the revolutionary and Civil wars by disguising themselves as men, most women served by nursing the sick and wounded and performing menial tasks such as washing and cooking in the camps. WWI saw a great demand for women as nurses as did WWII, Korea and Vietnam. WWII also saw the formation of women�s auxiliary groups such as the W.A.S.P.S (Women Airforce Service Pilots),WACS (Womens Army Corps), WAAFs (Women Auxiliary Air Force) and WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. These groups filled non-combatant billets to free up men to do the front-line fighting.
It wasn�t until the end of the draft following the Vietnam War and the start of the al...
About Karen Wilson
Bob Wilson, Jr. has inherited his fathers talent. After making a career at the Charleston Naval Shipyard as an engineer, Bob, Jr. started up a desktop publishing business called Fine Art Reproductions that is primarily involved in the reproduction of art work done by Charleston, SC low country artists. He has recently started painting again. His colored pencil sketch “A Weaver’s Prayer was the first piece he did in over twenty five years. He studied the art of portrait painting under his father and has embarked on a career in the fine art of portraiture. Bob, Jr. is a member of the Portrait Society of America, an exhibiting member of the Charleston Artist Guild and the Community of I'On Artists in Mt. Pleasant, SC. His piece called "Lost...
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