The Other Side by Dean Cornwell: The Man the Telegram Had Buried (1918)
What happens when the man the telegram has already buried is still standing in the room? In Dean Cornwell’s The Other Side (1918), the answer is a dream. A nurse named Mary sees Ronald, missing and believed killed, and the illustrator turns that second into a winged embrace set under the war. The wings take most of the sheet. The figure in her arms is the smaller thing. The picture is not a battle. It is the moment after the battle has been declared over, and one person refuses the declaration. Dean Cornwell, The Other Side , 1918. Oil on canvas, 34½ × 25½ in. Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Fine-art print available from the Sapiens Verbum print shop. 🖼️ Get this painting as a print → Quick facts Artist: Dean Cornwell (1892–1960) Title: The Other Side Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 34½ × 25½ in. (87.6 × 64.8 cm) Collection: Kelly Collection of American Illustration...