A Bit of the Argonne
Artist
Harold Kerr Eby
(American, 1889 - 1946)
Dateca. 1920
MediumDrypoint etching
DimensionsOverall: 7 × 10 7/8 inches (17.78 × 27.61 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number53-51/96
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DescriptionHelmeted soldiers amid tree trunks and ditches of the battleground.Gallery LabelSoldiers crouch in trenches and move solemnly through a landscape of shattered trees in this image of the final days of World War I. The Meuse-Argonne Grand Offensive, also called “the path of fire,” was among the deadliest of the war. It ended with the November 11, 1918 Armistice. Kerr Eby served in an ambulance crew and as a camouflage artist during the war. Back home, he turned his sketches into etchings and lithographs, which he published in the book WAR.
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