American Soldiers
- Description
- Very light ink wash and brush with touches of graphite. This interior scene is framed by the sloping roof of a loft. In the left foreground, a soldier sits on a cot holding his gun. A sword hangs on the wall in the right of the sketch. Two more soldiers can be seen through a doorway on the back wall of the loft. The sketch is done on beige wove paper mounted on beige card which is ruled in graphite. A label below the sketch, mounted on the card, reads: "AMERICAN SOLDIERS/Quartered in the loft of an old barn on the/outskirts of Chateau Thierry/BY W. J. DUNCAN/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2847"
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-06-07
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- maker
- Duncan, Walter Jack
- referenced
- France: Picardie, Château-Thierry
- Physical Description
- ink wash (overall production method/technique)
- graphite (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 5/8 in x 16 in; 29.5275 cm x 40.64 cm
- sketch: 6 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 17.145 cm x 26.035 cm
- ID Number
- AF.25689
- catalog number
- 25689
- accession number
- 64592
- related event
- World War I
- See more items in
- Armed Forces History: Armed Forces History, Military
- World War I Art
- Combat Art
- Military
- Art
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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