2005-2010 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American Military and Wartime Art"

Resource Library 2005-2010 articles and essays with the topic "American Military and Wartime Art"

(above: Norman Rockwell, U.S. Army Teaches a Trade (G.I. Telegrapher), 1919, oil on canvas, 19 x 29 inches, Norman Rockwell Museum, NRM.1977.03. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Our articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Go to For Us the Living": The Civil War in Paintings by Mort Kunstler (9/15/10) On view at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) from September 25, 2010 through January 9, 2011, the exhibit portrays the sights, feelings and drama of the Civil War. The exhibition consists of approximately 50 paintings accompanied by a selection of documentary objects. Many of the paintings are from Künstler's own collection, others are from various private and public collections. For the first time, visitors to a Künstler exhibition will gain an inside look into the artist's creative process through a display of his sketches, drawings, preliminary studies, photographs and props.

Go to Red, White, and Blue: American Sculpture for and by Veterans; article by Robin Salmon (6/17/10) This article accompainies an exhibit of the same name at Brookgreen Gardens, May 8 through July 25, 2010. The author says: "A number of the artworks at Brookgreen Gardens have patriotic themes or were designed originally as American war memorials. These iconic images represent freedom, strength, victory, and loss as shown through the eyes of talented sculptors."

Go to Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists; essay by Glen Knowles (6/16/10) This essay was written to accompany the exhibition Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists, on view at the Oceanside Museum of Art April 18 - October 3, 2010,

Go to Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists (6/16/10) On view at the Oceanside Museum of Art April 18 - October 3, 2010 this exhibit is an historic first examination of paintings by California Style watercolor artists on the subject of WWII. Over 60 paintings depicting scenes of California mobilizing for the war as well as images of the war overseas will be on view. Featured artists include Arthur Beaumont, Rex Brandt, Hardie Gramatky, Dong Kingman, Barse Miller, Phil Paradise, Charles Payzant, Ed Reep, Millard Sheets, and Milford Zornes.

Go to Mourning the Losses of the Civil War; article by Elizabeth Johns (5/17/10) This article, which also appeared in the May-June 2010 issue of American Art Review, was written to accompany the exhibition Circuit of the Summer Hills: Mourning the Losses of the Civil War, on view at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts January 16, 2010 - February 9, 2011.

Go to The Unwritten War: A Visual Story of the Civil War Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (9/8/09) Lasting from 1861 until 1865, the Civil War was a tumultuous time in American history. As the 150th Anniversary of the start of the war approaches, as well as the commemoration of John Brown's raid in 1859, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts presents a visual story of the lives of the soldiers, both Union and Confederate, as well as the lives of those left at home.

Go to Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era (7/29/09) From July 5 to October 4, 2009, Dixon Gallery and Gardens presents Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era. Through excerpts of Whitman's writing paired with some of the most important artworks of the mid-nineteenth century, Bold, Cautious, True creates an authentic window to America's history and a poignant view of its bloodiest war. A champion of America and the individual, Whitman contributed to the war through his literary talents and by nursing wounded soldiers. Although he published no poetry during the Civil War, he wrote many poems about his war experiences for later editions of his legendary Leaves of Grass. Highlighting Whitman's poems such as "Drum Taps," the literature of Bold, Cautious, True helps viewers read the exhibition and the period as a whole.

Go to Designing for Victory 1914-1945 (12/13/07) All of the posters at this Washington County Museum of Fine Arts exhibit are on loan from U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (AHEC) and the Carlisle Barracks. This exhibition explores how artists and government agencies used these posters to justify wars, bolster morale and persuade citizens to enlist for combat, buy war bonds, conserve vital resources, and accept sacrifices and losses.

Go to Fire and Ice: Marine Corps Combat Art from Afghanistan and Iraq / Soldier (6/21/07) From July 8 through October 21, 2007, the James A. Michener Art Museum offers artistic interpretations of the American military and its Middle East experiences through two individual, yet complementary exhibitions. Fire and Ice: Marine Corps Combat Art from Afghanistan and Iraq presents Marine Warrant Officer Michael Fay's drawings and watercolors, while Soldier highlights photographer Suzanne Opton's portraits of military men and women shortly after their return from deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Go to Patriotism and Persuasion: Posters of World War I (5/16/05) The Ventura County Museum of History & Art presents Patriotism and Persuasion: Posters of World War I, an exhibit on display from June 3 through August 28, 2005, featuring more than 36 vintage posters from the Great War (1914 - 1919). The exhibits explore how the posters' powerful images and captivating slogans stirred patriotism, united Americans against the enemy, recruited soldiers, and solicited participation in fundraising and humanitarian campaigns.

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