100 Objects from Century of the Child

Lorraine Schneider. War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things. 1966

Schneider, an artist and mother of four, created this poster for a print show at Pratt Institute in New York, out of concern that her eldest son would be drafted. The rough composition, with its simple sunflower and childlike scrawl, became the logo for Another Mother for Peace, an organization led in the present day by Lorraine’s daughter Carol, and went on to become one of the most ubiquitous protest images of the Vietnam War era. “Man will learn to resolve his inevitable difference through nonmilitary alternatives,” Schneider said at a United Nations disarmament conference in 1972. “But it is up to us, the artists … to prepare the emotional soil for the last step out of the cave.”

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