Returning Refugees Hatton Chattel
Returning Refugees Hatton Chattel
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- Description
- Charcoal, ink wash, and gouache drawing on beige textured paper. The work depicts refugees returning to a shell torn village in Hatton Chattel, France. Older men, women, children, sheep and a mule laden with clothing gather in front of a severely damaged building. An American soldier is standing in the center of the drawing. In the foreground on the left, a man in dark clothes stands looking at the crowd.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- date made
- 1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Aylward, William James
- depicted
- France: Grand Est, Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel
- Physical Description
- charcoal (overall production method/technique)
- wash (overall production method/technique)
- gouache (overall production method/technique)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 7/16 in x 25 1/4 in; 51.91125 cm x 64.135 cm
- ID Number
- AF.25664
- catalog number
- 25664
- accession number
- 64592
- Credit Line
- War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
- World War I
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- Military
- World War I Art
- Art
- Combat Art
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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