1941.08.15 “Cooperation”
by Emerson
10 x 17 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection
I am not completely sure the stylized signature is actually the name Emerson, but I cannot quite see anything better. I cannot find a WW2 artist with that name.
In 1940, after he expressed his concern to President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Nazi influence in Latin America, Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and later U.S. Vice President, was appointed to the new position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA) on July 30, 1941.
Rockefeller was charged with overseeing a program of U.S. cooperation with the nations of Latin America to help raise the standard of living, to achieve better relations among the nations of the western hemisphere, and to counter rising Nazi influence in the region. Anti-fascist propaganda was a major U.S. project across Latin America and was run by Rockefeller's office.
