Great War art: the Imperial War Museum

Just as a quick second post for this evening, I wanted to highlight a page on the Imperial War Museum's site, a collection of a dozen paintings of front-line life during the Great War.

Since it's not immediately obvious (or wasn't, at least, to me), what are shown are details--if you click on the image of the painting, a pop-up window will show the entire work.

a quick summary of recent links on the Great War from Society for Military History members

Thanks to a follower of the Society for Military History's Facebook page, here's a link to an article on war art commissioned by the US military during the Great War.

The article, on the Smithsonian website, contains a selection of images from the collection, a link to the digitised artworks, a link to a republication of the collection in book form by Texas A&M University Press, and a link to the New Britain Museum of Art, which houses work by one of the artists who took part in the project.

Other recent SMH posts concerning the Great War have included:

• an article from the US Library of Congress on First World War sheet music 
• an article from BBC History magazine on First World War slang that's stuck in the English language
• a piece on researching WWI POWs
• an interview with the director of the Canadian War Museum 
• an article in the Telegraph of war posters, 
• a review of a recent biography of Kaiser Wilhelm and
• a promo for a joint UNC/King's College London conference on the First World War taking place later this month