During WWI, the War Department sent American artists to Europe. The Smithsonian recently digitized this captivating artwork. Here's a few samples.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonia...0952321/?no-ist

The full collection can be accessed by scrolling halfway down the article and clicking on 'the collection' link.



Cleaning Out Boche Machine Gun Nest by George Matthews Harding, one of 700 paintings by commissioned artists during WWI. (National Museum of American History)

Those are great! Thanks for sharing the link.

Good stuff. Thanks

They are very touching, through their seeming simplicity.
Done very quickly, but artisticly.
Thank you for sharing, Shiloh!

Love how the article says that the artists, notably, did not depict bodies, yet the samples they attach with the article have dead bodies in them....