Horace Pippin, American (1888 – 1946) “The Ending of the War, Starting Home” (1930-1933), oil on canvas, 26 × 30 1/16 in.; framed: 32 × 39 1/2 × 2 inches (gift of Robert Carlen, 1941, 1941-2-1) ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the face of death, many turned to faith. That is the topic of a new exhibit opening up at the World War I Museum. It’s called “Sacred Service”, and it explores the role of ...
Germany, 1918. Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, not far from Berlin. An Australian Indigenous POW, Douglas Grant, sits as a model for a portrait bust by a German Jewish sculptor, Rudolf Marcuse. The ...
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No American doughboys remain alive to recall wading through the trenches of the Great War more than a century ago, so a new sculpture in the nation’s capital seeks to speak for them. Officials ...