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The son of Richard Caton Woodville Sr., an American who was also a talented artist, Woodville studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the Prussian military painter Wilhelm Camphausen, and then Eduard von Gebhardt, both artists of the Düsseldorf School of painting, before briefly studying in Russia and then Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Most of Dunn's war sketches are housed at the Smithsonian Institution in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden (1950). [2] In this painting, a mother and her two children are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great ...
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II. A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.
Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 – May 1, 1889) was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. [1] Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy.
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 history.
The painting was inspired by Gibb's reading of Alexander Kinglake's book The Invasion of the Crimea.It shows the blue-coated Russian cavalry within a few yards of the red-coated British infantry, much closer than was actually the case in the battle: in reality, the cavalry came no closer than 100–200 yards (91–183 m).
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Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank, but returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth.