2010.54.92
The March for Peace : San Francisco
1970
23 in HIGH x 17.5 in WIDE
(58.42 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
(58.42 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.92
Top edge of poster has "Limited Edition - Print No: W.P Free Flight Graphics 1971" printed in blue.
Poster has a black and white image of a young boy wearing a hat and a plaid shirt sticking his finger up his nose. The same image is repeated behind in blue and yellow and has grey words written over it. The bottom edge of the poster has "The March for Peace San Francisco April 24, 1971 Bay Area Concerned Officer's Movement" printed in black. Verso has a black square and the same printing as the front along the top edge.
The work is derived from a photo taken by Charles McCarty in Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam, in late 1968 when he was assigned as a Clinical Specialist with the 15th Medical Battalion of the 1st Calvary Division. The subject is a Vietnamese orphan who was under treatment for tuberculosis. He is holding the hand of a Vietnamese female civilian who was his caregiver at the time.
Charles McCarty offered his services to BACOM to provide graphic arts support. This particular work was a four color photoserigraph, done in a limited edition of 100. This poster is an unsigned working proof.
The client for this poster was the Bay Area Concerned Officer's Movement, one of the few military-based antiwar groups involving non-enlisted men
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