Save the Food Gouache on Board Art Student Painting carved wooden spoon with curvy handle decorated with the same ball

decorated with the same ball and thread pattern

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Save the Food Gouache on Board Art Student Painting carved wooden spoon with curvy handle decorated with the same ballThis painting came from a portfolio of student work by a Rachel S. Roberts, c. 1918 I'd guess a class assignment from an advertising design class. Though done as a mock graphic for the U. S. Food Administration founded in 1917 to administer food reserves for the U. S. army and allies during World War I certainly the message remains relevant today, and I really love her rendering of those fish, especially! 9" x 12" gouache on board. Some stains and a