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Medical Art in the Navy

A WAVE and other naval personnel working on painting and drawings
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Description: Painting, Oil on Canvas; by Carlos Andreson; 1943; Framed Dimensions 34H X 40W
Accession #: 88-159-M
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Here, in the art department of a naval hospital, is a group at work on many projects, including cartoon animation, cartography, and technical drawings of bacteria and diseased tissues. Not only is there a woman in uniform in the foreground, but there is a WAVES recruiting poster in the right background.

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