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FORINGER, Alonzo Earl  (1878-?) designer, illustrator.
          Born Kaylor, Pennsylvania, 1 February 1878.
          His design, Greatest Mother in the World, was made into
          a postwar poster after it was made into bas-relief.

          R   E   L   I   E   F   S

1919 Greatest Mother in the World Plaque (designed by
          A.E. Foringer, modeled by V. Joan Hansen; cast
          by John F. Newman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
          Illustrated: The Numismatist 32:7 (July 1919) page . 276

          B I O G R A P H I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

BA  {1937} Who's Who In American Art: 1937 [1ed:150].
D33 {1986} Opitz, p 289.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 1:1157.
D3a {2006} Benezit.Dictionary of Artists, p 5:887.

          N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

P2  {1919} The Numismatist 32:7 (July 1919) p 276-277.
"There has been no scholar better qualified to create 'the American Forrer' than Dick Johnson."
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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