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This Is War!
| May 10 – August 10, 2008 |
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Due to the depth of the Delaware Art Museum’s illustration collections through the 1940s, the Museum is able to provide a wide array of artists’ interpretations of war. Over 40 illustrations and posters in this exhibition focus on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, First World War, and Second World War. There are illustrations of historical writings, illustrations from fictional pieces, works created as a form of visual reportage, and productions intended to exhort the citizenry to proper behavior during conflict. Featured artists include Winslow Homer, Howard Pyle, Frank E. Schoonover, John Sloan, and N. C. Wyeth.
Shoulder Your Share, He Did!, c. 1918
Clifford Warren Ashley (1881-1947)
Oil on canvas, 45 x 29 inches
Gift of the Bank of Delaware, 1989 |
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Two Generations in France:
We Must Not Let Them Down, c. 1941
Frank Darling (1919-2004)
Watercolor and gouache on board,
13 x 17 1/2 inches
Museum Purchase, 2006
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The Fight on Lexington Common, April 19, 1775, c. 1898, from “The Story of the Revolution,” by Henry Cabot Lodge, in Scribner’s Magazine, January 1898
Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
Oil on canvas, 23 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches
Museum Purchase, 1912 |
| In Delaware, this exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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