1944 Print Newport Rhode Island Army Military Patrol WWII Oliver Baker AAF1 OLD3 This city is known as

This city is known as the City of Lakes

making the hours fly by

Museum of Decorative Arts

Photograph by Leni Riefenstahl

1944 Print Newport Rhode Island Army Military Patrol WWII Oliver Baker AAF1 OLD3 This city is known asThis is an original 1944 World War II halftone print of military patrol in Newport, Rhode Island, shortly after Pearl Harbor. A native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Corporal Oliver Baker came to the United States, where he received his art education from the Pratt Institute, the Art Students League. Thereafter, Baker studied in Paris. Later, he became assistant to the Treasury Relief Art Project. He, then, was commissioned by the Federal Arts Project