News

World War I was unique for the art it inspired, and for the art's disillusion with war itself; winners and losers both despaired. In an essay written for an ongoing World War I exhibit at the New ...
Bold, brash, and unforgettable - P-51 nose art told stories in paint across the fog of war. Whether honoring a sweetheart ...
In the popular imagination, the 1940s were dominated by sacrifice at home and violence abroad as World War II raged on. But at a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, curators aim to ...
World War I soldiers created underground art in the trenches. Trapped in beneath the ground by trench warfare, the soldiers of the Great War left their mark in subterranean works of art.
If Mitchell’s World War II combat art built his career, then his obsession with Vietnam destroyed it. My grandfather, usually a reserved man, ...
LIFESTYLE World War I monument to be unveiled across from White House this fall: 'Sacred art' Bronx-based sculptor reveals creative process behind bronze memorial depicting ‘A Soldier’s Journey’ ...
Manhattan DA helps return art stolen by Nazis to original owner's family 01:57. NEW YORK-- Two art pieces stolen by Nazis during World War II were returned to the family of their original owners ...
When Capt. Art Palmer, 103, talks about his service during World War II, he leans forward in his chair, his voice intensifies, and his hands fidget, like he’s back in combat.
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the leading society artist of his day, was commissioned by the British government to contribute to a Hall of Remembrance for those who died in World War One.
“Before World War I, war art depicted heroic military leaders and romanticized battles, and it was done long after the fact and far from the battlefield,” says chief curator Peter Jakab.
A New York Supreme Court judge determined that the “Russian War Prisoner” watercolor had been stolen by Nazis from Fritz Grünbaum before the start of World War II.