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American
(1898–1977)
Rolling Forts, Flying Fort and Anti-aircraft Net
1942
Graphite and gouache on paper
28.25 x 34.25 x 0.75 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1990.7
Months before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Clay Spohn had dreams of war in spectacular color. To fight the enemy in his dreams, he imagined fantastical war machines before sleeping. Friends encouraged him to paint these visions and show them, with his “guerragraphs” (from the Spanish guerra, war) depicting mechanical monsters, at the San Francisco Museum of Art in February 1942.
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