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

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

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

War-Themed Musical Performance

Songs from the Battlefields:
Tunes from Revolutionary and Civil War

Saturday, June 21 | 1:00 p.m.
$5 Members/$10 Non-Members

Charlie Zahm is one of the most popular soloists of early American music east of the Mississippi. In conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition This is War!, this interactive and compelling program celebrates the power of music in providing a window into the past through time-honored oral traditions of recitation and song. To register, call Cynthia Smith at 302.351.8514 or e-mail csmith@delart.org.