2011-2016 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American Military and Wartime Art"

Resource Library 2011-2016 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 Insignias of Fort Ord: Art in Everyday Military Life (3/18/16) - Monterey Museum of Art presents the art exhibition, Insignias of Fort Ord: Art in Everyday Military Life, created by artist Enid Baxter Ryce, in collaboration with the Veterans Transition Center of Marina (VTC), CSUMB students and staff members to explore the art and symbolism of this unique place.

Go to Hell on earth: The artist termed his work "The Richard Saholt Story"; essay by Michael Bonesteel (10/12/15) - Mad As Hell: The Collages of Richard Saholt is curated by Michael Bonesteel, on display October 2, 2015- January 3, 2016 at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

Go to The Poignancy of Painting and Poetry in Bold, Cautious, True; essay by Sylvia Yount (7/14/12) The following essay was first published in myVMFA, the member magazine for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in connection with the exhibition Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era, on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 2 through August 26, 2012.

Go to Westchester Women & War: Portraits (7/14/12) This exhibit connects two Hudson River Museum projects that honor military women in Westchester County.

Go to A Soldiers View of Civil War Charleston (5/18/11) Gibbes Museum of Art's exhibit A Soldiers View of Civil War Charleston features paintings depicting the batteries and forts around Charleston Harbor as painted by Conrad Wise Chapman (1842-1910) during the Civil War

Go to A Soldier's View of Civil War Charleston, article by Pamela S. Wall (5/18/11) This article was written in conjunction with A Soldiers View of Civil War Charleston, on view from April 8 through July 10, 2011 at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.

Go to So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego (4/19/11) The Michener Art Museum exhibit marks the 150-year anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.

Go to Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection (2/3/11) An exhibition of rarely seen first-hand drawings that document the American Civil War was presented in 2011 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Richmond Museums. The exhibition featured a total of ninety unique sketches from the Becker Collection with 45 works on view at each venue.

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