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Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890 – 11 September 1925) was a British artist who is best known for the paintings she created during the First World War. Mudie-Cooke served as an ambulance driver in both France and Italy during the conflict and these experiences were reflected in her artwork.
The Gallic Women: Episode from the Roman Invasion; Gassed (painting) General George Washington at Trenton; General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian; General Officers of World War I; Gettysburg Cyclorama; God Speed (painting) Going to Work; The Great Day of Girona; Battle of Grunwald (Matejko ...
The painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) was sold to cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder for $135 million, at the time the highest sum ever paid for a painting. [17] Since July 13, 2006, the painting has been on public display in the Neue Galerie in New York City, which was established by Lauder in 2001. The four additional works by Klimt ...
Mary Riter was born in Culross, Ontario (now part of South Bruce, ON), on 7 September 1867.While there has been confusion regarding the year of her birth with scholars, curators, and archivists speculating that she was born in 1874, 1868, or 1867, Irene Gammel’s 2020 book I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton uses Census data to document that the accurate ...
A colloquium in partnership with the National World War II Museum will be held on Feb. 11. The Hilliard is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on ...
A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering and celebrating. [ 4 ] The works produced by war artists illustrate and record many aspects of war, and the individual's experience of war, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Evelyn Mary Dunbar (18 December 1906 – 12 May 1960) was a British artist, illustrator and teacher. [1] She is notable for recording women's contributions to World War II on the United Kingdom home front, particularly the work of the Women's Land Army.