Military artwork

[USMCRECON]

After posting pictures of my "museum room" in the displays section, I received several comments about the various items of military art hanging on the walls. So, I thought it might be interesting to open a thread for forum members to post pics of their military art. My own artwork spans the timeframe from the Civil War to the Iran Hostage rescue attempt. Almost all of the pictures that I'll be posting of framed artwork will look like the picture is taken off-center, and they were. It was the only way to reduce the glare from the flasd down to a reasonabler level.

 

The first one I'm going to throw up is one of my favorites. It's Don Troiani's "Lions of the Roundtop" depicting the 20th Main's basyonet charge down the slopes of Little Round Top at Gettysburgh, 2 Jul 1863. The bright spots at bottom center is NOT the ghost orb of a dead soldiers......it's from the flash of the camera on the glass cover ing the print. I got a couple reproduction Civil War Col shoulder straps and officer's hat bugle and displayed them in the frame with the print.

 

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This one is a Mort Kunstler print of Gen Buford's cavalry troops on Seninary Ridge at Gettysburg on 1 Jul 1863. It's called "Hold at all costs." It's a rather unusual size, being very wide and not very tall.

 

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This one is also Civil War. It's called "Double Canister" by Dale Gallon. It depicts action on 17 Sep 1862 during the battle of Sharpsburg when Gen Stonewall Jackson's ordered his staff officers to mann one of the artillery pieces. Jackson is seen holding their mounts.

 

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Here is another Dale Gallon print. this one is called "encounter at Plum run" and depicts a scene that took place during the Gettysburg battle on 2 Jul 1863. This is a special edition of 200 done for Franklin County PA (with the gold seal at lower right).

 

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One more for now. this is a Robert Taylor piece depicting the AVG engaging the Japanese. This one is an Artist's Proof and is signed by Taylor and seven "Tigers."

 

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I guess I'll do one more before calling it a night. This one is also a Robert Taylor print and is called "First of many" depicting Doug Bader climbing his Hurricane to meet a German aircraft over England in the battle of Britain. It's a rather old print and is signed by several Battle of Britain pilots, including Peter Townsend, "Johnnie" Johnson, and Robert Standford-Tuck.

 

This one truly is the last for tonight since I'm getting tired and 0400 comes early tomorrow.

 

[Steve B.]

Here's one of mine (this image is from the www.jamesdietz.com website):

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This is one of muy favorites since I am one of the "models" that posed for this painting. By my count, I am in this one at least four times, maybe more. I know I am the wounded man in the left forground, the soldier standing at far left pointing, the soldier standing with the Thompson and rubbing his chin, and the soldier standing at the right rear of the central group. Jim called and asked me to come back to his house in Seattle a couple of weeks after the first session and he took a lot of close-ups of clothing wrinkles, sleeves, knees, my back, etc. so I may or may not appear in any or all of the rest of the figures.

I have several other Jim Dietz prints that I also appeared in, but this is the only one I have framed & matted - so far.

Steve

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Here's one of mine (this image is from the www.jamesdietz.com website):


This is one of muy favorites since I am one of the "models" that posed for this painting. By my count, I am in this one at least four times, maybe more. I know I am the wounded man in the left forground, the soldier standing at far left pointing, the soldier standing with the Thompson and rubbing his chin, and the soldier standing at the right rear of the central group. Jim called and asked me to come back to his house in Seattle a couple of weeks after the first session and he took a lot of close-ups of clothing wrinkles, sleeves, knees, my back, etc. so I may or may not appear in any or all of the rest of the figures.

I have several other Jim Dietz prints that I also appeared in, but this is the only one I have framed & matted - so far.

Steve

Now THAT is cool! I like that scene. I do like Dietz' work and particularly that he does a lot more WW-I subjects than most artists do.

Thanks for sharing that one, Steve.

[rrobertscv]

Here are a couple of prints I have that were given to me by the artist. The artist is Rex Brasher he was a ball turret gunner on a B-17. He said he would take pencils and sketch what he saw and then do watercolors later on. The top one was his favorite one that he did. I include a small photo of him, he is nearing 90 and up until last year would always come out to the Veterans day display I did.

[pwmiraldi67]

Hey Bill

WOW Bro!! Where do you have the room to hang all those awsome prints!!! Besides the prints the matting and framing is superb!!! Im not into the Civil war but Don Trionis work is GREAT. I feel once I move to the South I know I'll wind up getting some of those prints.

 

Do you have your art work though out the house?? Im lucky my wife allows some militay framed works in the house too.

 

Thanks for sharing!! Awsome stuff!!!

Paul

[pwmiraldi67]

I only do Vietnam, but this one framed item was so cool I built a whole room around it, now the office is the SUB ROOM

thanks

paul

[VeeVee]

Hello All,
Here's one I have. A print of the Last Cavalry Charge painting, signed by Col. Ed Ramsey who led the charge (he's 92 now).

I think they may have a few more prints available from this website:

http://www.uscavalry.org/

[Hawk914]

Here's one of the few prints in my collection, although this image does not show the actual print that I own. It's in storage until I can matte and frame it. Just don't have the time to do that kinda stuff any more... someday, though!




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[Plant#4]

Here is an oil painting I purchased at an estate sale.

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And here is a YB-60 and an early production model of the B-32 Dominator. Both are real photographs. Sorry for the odd angle, but they are in my stairwell, my new office will be ready soon.

[Plant#4]

This is a oil painting of both the Air Force and Navy versions of the F-111. It was obtained from General Dynamics about 1988. Interestingly enough is the fact that the painting was altered (repainted) to show both models. A real odd ball to be sure. This was obtained with permission, and yes those are Colburns coffee stains, but thats another story... Dave

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and one more, this is a YB-49 at about 4 feet by 5 feet. It needs to be restored. I may take a picture of my B-58 later on, its 7 1/2 feet by 4 feet, but its out in the garage....

[BEAST]

Great topic! I really like the artwork and photos that have been posted!

 

Here are a few pieces that were done during the war by my neighbor who was a B-26 pilot with the 9th Air Force.

 

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This is a drawing of a female hitchhiker that the Crew Chief brought on board the aircraft. My neighbor is the pilot, in the left seat, the crew chief is in the co-pilot's seat and well, the hitchhiker is the one throwing up in the back!

[BEAST]

Here is one more. Unfortunetly it has some damage to it

 

[USMCRECON]

Great artwork! The next couple that I'm posting are thumbnails of the prints taken from the Internet. they're framed and hanging in my office and cameras are not allowed in there. Hopefully, since they're thumbnails, I can fit more than one on the post.

 

The top one is a depiction of the 24th Regiment of Foot as Isandhlwana by Simon Smith. The framed one looks quite nice with wormy cedar frame and red suade mat over a sandy yellow-beige lower mat.

 

The middle one is by Philip West and the one in my office is an Artist Proof version. Bottom, of course is a depiction of the Blackhawk down battle and is signed by CWO Durrand. I'm not as fond of the artwork on this one but it's the only military print depiction of the event that I know of.

 

 

 

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A couple more thumbnails of prints hanging in my office. It seems only one will fit here. This is "Breechloaders and Greencoats" by Dale Gallon. I'd been wanting one of these for years but could never find one. About two or three years ago when my wife and I were in Gettysburg, we stopped into Gallon's gallery and he had one on display, already beautifuly framed and matted.

 

It was hanging on the wall in the back office and when I asked about it, they said it was Mr Gallon's personal copy of the print. We talked some more and my wife and I walked around the gallery looking at all the prints on display and er talked about other ideas for future prints projects. Eventually, he offered it to me for sale at a very reasonable price, including the framing and matting!

 

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A couple more thumbnails of prints in my office and I'm done for today. Both of these subjects are quite meaningful since I worked on both cases. At top is a depiction of the last flight of James B. McGovern (Earthquake McGoon). During WW-II, McGovern was a fighter pilot and afterward, stayed on in Asia and began flying for the Civil Air Transport (CIA). He and his co-pilot are (arguably) the first American casualties of the Vietnam War. His C-119 was badly damaged while making an air drop to the French forced encircled at Dien Bien Phu. He struggled to keep the aircraft flying but eventually it crashed near a river in Laos.

 

In 1997, a US recovery team, looking for another crash site, found a propeller from a C-119. Further investigations went on over the years and in 2002 we found the remains of one individual in a grave near the original crash site. They were eventually identified as McGovern and I attended Earthquake's burial at Arlington Cemetery in May of 2007 (his co-pilot, Wally Buford remains unaccounted for).

 

The lower one also depicts one of my cases. This one is Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown. He was the very first Black Naval Aviator. He was lost on 4 December 1950 when he was shot down north of the Chosin Reservoir. I have been working this case since 2000 and interviewed both of Brown's surviving flight mates several times. One was LTJG Tom Hudner who deliberately crash-landed his Corsair near Browns in an unsuccessful attempt to free him from the wreckage. Tom Hudner would later receive the Medal of Honor for the attempted rescue. The actual print in my office is framed in a gold anodized aluminum frame with dark blue/gold, and black matting. Also in the frame are Tom Hudner's Korean War vintage Naval Aviator's wings and a set of ribbons depicting Jesse's entitlements, including posthumous.

 

In 2005 I had high hopes of finding ENS Brown's remains as the North Koreans said they would allow us to travel to his crash site. Unfortunately, some three weeks before our team was supposed to go in, the wheels came off the wagon, all recovery teams were withdrawn from North Korea, and we have not been back since.

 

 

[USMCRECON]

Well, since there are only two more thumbnails of prints in my office, I guess I'll go ahead and post these as well. Both are Jim Dietz prints. The top one, "Out on a limb" shows a "Mosquito" FAC preparing for a mission during the Korean War.

 

The bottom one is "Gone West" and it depicts two British airmen paying their respects to a fallen comrade. I posted this one briefly in another thread a couple weeks ago.

 

 

[Rustykamel]

 

This is my favorite piece of military art. The artist is J. C. Leyendecker, one of America's very best illustrators. His First World War paintings included two soldiers (one wearing a campaign hat), a pilot, a Marine, and a sailor.

 

Best wishes, Jim