http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch_(painting) because it is the best peace of art ever full stop.
So many to choose from. The 'Sword of Honour' Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh? David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia'? 'The Parable of the Old Men and the Young' (or a dozen others) by Owen? Capa's photo of the Spanish soldier? The Royal Artillery memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger? Shakespeare's Henry V?
The Canadian National War Memorial in Ottawa. Fascinating for me since I was a boy and I always try to spend some time there whenever I'm in the capital. View attachment 85474
Just a reminder of the impressive collection of paintings held by the Imperial War Museum in London which includes that mind- blowing painting of men who have been blinded by gas. Imperial War Museum Prints - High quality art prints, canvases Ron
This painting is in the Atlanta Cyclorama. It shows the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, The High Water Mark of the Confederacy. The Battle on July 3rd, 1863 is popularly known as Pickett's Charge, after one of the three divisional commanders under Longstreet's I Corps and Hill's III Corps who marched out of the woods on Seminary Ridge to attack the center of the Union line - "The Angle" - on Cemetery Ridge. The painting shows the battle just after Gen. Lewis Armistead has gone down wounded, and the remaining Confederates are spilling over the stone wall into Gen. Winfield Hancock's II Corps. The Southern forces were repulsed with heavy losses and never again would General Robert E. Lee have sufficient forces to take the war to the Northern states. General Lewis Armistead, C.S.A. and General Winfield Hancock, U.S.A., were close friends before the war both. Both were wounded in the charge, with Armistead dying two days later and Hancock enduring great pain the remainder of his life. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/attachment.php?attachmentid=85368&d=1338662934 You're slipping, Jeff! The cyclorama in Atlanta shows The Battle of Atlanta. It was one of the first things I went to after I carpet-bagged my way down from NY! The Gettysburg one in in Gettysburg at the park headquarters. It takes a 'Damn Yankee' like me to point that out to you? The shame! Dave
I may have a new favourite: On The Strip-line: Churchill tanks being dismantled. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3066)IWM Non Commercial Licence Object description image: the interior of a factory with men stripping down and dismantling tanks. The hulls of several Churchill tanks are arranged in a line, men busying themselves within and on top of the tanks. In the foreground two men work on a tank engine. History note War Artists Advisory Committee commission Inscription CUNEO Rework Programme? Salvage?
Very nice guys, love many of these but here is the pocket battleship, 'Nazi Germany', or was it 'Great Britain', drawn in a POW camp so, hey, they had plenty of time. Taken from my Fathers POW book so no idea where it came from. Has anyone seen anything similar? Regards, Nick KenFentonsWar.com
Grave of a Canadian Trooper, by war artist Lieutenant D. Alex Colville. (source:CWM) Serving in World War II was a profoundly affecting experience for Alex Colville. He was 22 years old when he enlisted in 1942, just out of university and newly married. He joined the Canadian Infantry and rose through the ranks to a commission as a second lieutenant. In 1944, he was flown to London to take an appointment as an official War Artist. Travelling to Yorkshire, the Mediterranean, the Netherlands and northern Germany, he worked meticulously to record what he saw: the men, the machines and the devastation. In April 1945, he was dispatched to the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camph in northern Germany, where he witnessed graphic evidence of the Holocaust that would haunt him for his entire life.
Often search by photographer. Rarely by artist. Some nice ones in that Cuneo series: The Water Test : a hull-immersion test for tanks. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3095)IWM Non Commercial Licence Giant Presses Stamping Out Small Parts of Churchill Tanks. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3065)IWM Non Commercial Licence Fitting Tracks at the Pit Station. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3096)IWM Non Commercial Licence
Well, it's not high art but I still really like this night time sketch of the beach at Dunkirk by night I posted earlier this year. Nighttime at Dunkirk by Seroster posted Aug 7, 2017 at 8:59 PM
Alex Colville passed away in 2013, at age 92, at his home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He said the war deeply affected him and led to his unique, recognizable style of existentialism and realism. He was one of the 31 official Canadian war artists and one of three artists allowed in to the Bergen-Belsen death camp.
Always liked this one of the first US Navy destroyers to arrive in Europe in WWI sailing past Irish fishing boats The Return of the Mayflower, by Bernard F. Gribble