Category: Art
The Fighting Cartoonist – How Bill Mauldin’s ‘Willie & Joe’ Comics Captured the Plight of GIs in WWII
“A baby-faced infantryman from Phoenix, Ariz. was the creative genius behind Willie and Joe, perhaps the best-loved comic strip to come out of World War Two.” PICTURE TWO SOAKING AND EXHAUSTED GIs squatting in a mud-filled…
The Great Escape – How the Story of a POW Breakout Became One of Hollywood’s Most Iconic War Films
“It can be illuminating to unpack the process by which what ‘really happened’ in 1944 became a fictional film in 1963.” By Dana Polan I first saw The Great Escape at my local drive-in in…
‘Valor in Action’ — How One WW2 Vet-Turned-Artist Immortalized Marine Corps History
“Over that time, the book would morph from a volume of paintings … into something bigger, and far more powerful.” IN 2006, 82-year-old painter and former United States Marine Corps artist-in-residence Col. Charles Waterhouse set…
The Eye of the Storm – How Alfred Waud’s Sketches Captured the Carnage of the U.S. Civil War
“Armed with little more than a sketchpad and a set of charcoal pencils, Waud witnessed a string of battles, faithfully committing the destruction he saw to paper.” MUCH HAS BEEN written about pioneering photographers like Mathew…
Imagining the First Air War – How a 1908 Advertisement Anticipated the Future of Aerial Combat
“The poster depicts a night action in which an armada of airships bomb a small town while artillery batteries on the ground furiously try to fend off the attacking Zeppelins.” By Harry Smee and Henry…
The Civil War in VR – Immersive Online Experience Puts Viewers in the Heat of Battle
“It’s one thing to read about the terror of battle, but a very different thing to live through it.” THE DEADLIEST CONFLICT in U.S. history is being reimagined for the 21st Century, thanks to VR…
