“They Still Draw Pictures.”

“They Still Draw Pictures.”

“They Still Draw Pictures” is a collection of 60 original drawings created by the children who had first-hand experience with the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Its significance stems from the fact that the drawings allowed a child--whose unmistakable witness to the war was otherwise limited by an underdeveloped syntax--to eloquently illustrate the horror of modern war through creative visual expression. The publication of this book harnessed the international sympathy for the cause of the stricken Spanish children and accompanied a traveling fundraising exhibition of 118 of the children’s pictures. Widespread circulation of the drawings served as a way for the Spanish children to demonstrate how the war not only affected those who were fighting, but the innocent as well. Thus, these drawings stand alongside Picasso’s Guernica, calling for peace.

American Friends Service Committee

1938

Alexandra Belfi

Booklet