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Russian War Paintings

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Browsing around the internet this afternoon, I came across a rather stirring set of paintings based on the Russian perspective in WWII. I haven’t looked at a collection like this in some time that is at once beautiful, awful, heroic, tragic, bright, dark all in one. The set is certainly worth a look, [...]

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Aircraft Art

Monday, July 7, 2008

Some time ago, I saw this notice at my school. The lede is copied here:
“The Mary Condon Hodgson Art Gallery will host paintings by Richard Harris from June 7-July 8. Titled ‘Wings of Honor II,’ his paintings are influenced by the world of military aviation.”
With school out for the summer and gas prices the [...]

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Lawrence Beall-Smith

Friday, September 14, 2007

Scrolling through the archives of the Naval Historical Center, I revisited their collection of period artwork this evening. And it is, in a word, awesome. Many paintings of conflict are somberly painted, with good reason. But there are others, like this painting by Lawrence Beall-Smith, that show color in interesting ways. [...]

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More from the NPG

Monday, July 9, 2007

More from the 20th Century Americans exibit at the National Portrait Gallery:
* Winston Churchill–What struck me about this painting was the striking blue of the uniform, though it’s hard to see that in this picture.
* George Marshall–This one occupied a separate wall…very true to life rendering. Not at all like the MacAuthor painting.
* Anthony [...]

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Douglas MacAuthur

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Now this one over at the NPG caught my eye among all the ww2 portraits. All the portraits there, and most others I’ve seen, are generally as true to life as the artist can make them. It’s almost as if a different kind of visual interpretation breaks the rule of painting “serious war [...]

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George Patton

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Over at the National Portrait Gallery today and wandered in to the 20th Century Americans exhibit. This area, more or less, was the WWII section with portraits of Marshall, Halsey, Mark Clark, Churchill, Ike (though his was only 8×11—hopefully he has something better over in the American Presidents wing, though I didn’t have the [...]

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