Who Likes War
1935-1943
Charles Alston delivers a punchy anti-war message in this stark print, created during the turbulent years leading up to World War II. A weary woman trudges through a jagged, ruined landscape carrying a heavy yoke, clutching a bundle—perhaps a child—to her chest. Instead of crops, her baskets are filled with nightmares: a snarling dragon on one side and a heap of weapons on the other. As a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Alston used his art to speak truth to power, asking a rhetorical question that echoes through history: looking at this burden of destruction, who could possibly *like* war?
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