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This category is for War artists whose main topical focus was the first World War. Many of these artists were official artists for their respective governments, but some have produced work post-War. Contents
Yale Centre for British Art A photograph similar to Gassed of British troops blinded by poison gas during the Battle of Estaires, 1918. The painting measures 231.0 by 611.1 centimetres (7 ft 6.9 in × 20 ft 0.6 in). The composition includes a central group of eleven soldiers depicted nearly life-size.
[1] The U.S. Army War Art Unit was established in late 1942; and by the spring of 1943, 42 artists were selected. In May 1943, Congress withdrew funding the unit was inactivated. [3] The Army's Vietnam Combat Art Program was started in 1966. Teams of soldier-artists created pictorial accounts and interpretations for the annals of army military ...
The Doctor (1916) (Art.IWM ART 725). At the outbreak of World War I, Nevinson joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit, which his father had helped to found.From 13 November 1914, Nevinson spent nine weeks in France with the FAU and the British Red Cross Society, mostly working at a disused goods shed by Dunkirk rail station known as the Shambles.
By the time the First World War broke out, he was a frequent contributor to periodicals, such as the Sporting and Dramatic, in the days before photography had become general. In the early part of the war, as an artist for The Graphic , he sketched many scenes from the front in France before entering the Royal Naval Air Service as a rating Motor ...
War Art: Murals and Graffiti – Military Life, Power and Subversion. Bootham: Council for British archaeology. ISBN 978-1-902771-56-4; OCLC 238785409; United States. Cornebise, Alfred. (1991). Art from the trenches: America's Uniformed Artists in World War I. College Station: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 978-0-89096-349-4; OCLC 22892632
Dead Germans in a Trench is a 1918 oil painting by Irish artist William Orpen, made during the First World War.It was inspired by the battlefield of the Battle of the Somme that Orpen had visited in 1917, and depicts the bodies of two dead German soldiers sinking into the mud at the bottom of a trench.
British official war artists were a select group of artists who were employed on contract, or commissioned to produce specific works during the First World War, the Second World War and select military actions in the post-war period. [1] Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record ...