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Death and VictoryThe mural on the left, Death and Victory, glorifies the grim price that this war exacted. A lone Harvard soldier, gripped closely by the partly shrouded figure of Death, embraces the form of beautiful, luminous Victory, with her palm branch held high. Beneath his feet lies a fallen German, amid blood, barbed wire, and ammunition—the mortal enemy defined. The jingoistic, collective fervor of Entering becomes here an altarpiece for a youthful martyr. |
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| Death and Victory, 1922 Oil on canvas, 439.42 x 186.69 cm Entering the War, 1922 Oil on canvas, 444.04 x 186.69 cm Widener Library, Harvard University | |  | |