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Jascha Heifetz March 1918 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Ruined Cathedral, Arras 1918 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Henry Tonks 1918 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK |
Henry Tonks (1862-1937) studied medicine and became a doctor at
the Royal Free Hospital in London. Tonks also
attended drawing lessons at the London Technical Institute where he met the
artist Frederick Brown. When Brown became principal of Slade Art School, he
convinced Tonks to give up medicine and become one of
its teachers. He joined the New... | GA | igrkio | |
A Street in Arras 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
Arras
1918
From: Art of the First
World War
During his
stay in France in the summer of 1918, Sargent travelled all over the Picardy
and Artois regions. In Arras, he painted the ruins of the cathedral and
collapsed houses like this one. A shell has burst through the wall, revealing
an old horse-drawn carriage. The floor... | GA | igrkio | |
Wheels in Vault 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Arras 1918 | GA | igrkio | ||
Ruined CellarArras 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
Gassed 1918 Imperial War Museum London, UK |
Dulce et Decorum est
Bent
double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed,
coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the
haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards
our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched
asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped
on, blood-shod. All went lame, all... | GA | igrkio | |
The Road 1918 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | ||
Truck Convoy 1918 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent