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Senior Master Sergeant
by Andrew Hough
The Daily Telegraph 21 July 2010
A soldier stares into the distance, shell-shocked by the reality of the battlefield in a picture painted by a man who witnessed it first-hand. Tom Lea was serving with the US Army when he created That 2,000-yard Stare in 1944.
The Second World War painting is one of more than 300 artworks by servicemen and women going on display for the first time. The exhibition covers every conflict fought by American soldiers from the First World War to Afghanistan.
The hardship is briefly forgotten in Bob Hope Entertaining Troops Somewhere in England, painted by Floyd Davis in 1943. It shows the comedian in a metal helmet and a trench coat performing for laughing soldiers. Col Peter Crean, deputy director of the Army Centre of Military History, said depicting war through painting gave it an extra level. "War is a totally emotional experience and the medium of painting brings that out in a way other mediums cannot" he said. Master Sgt Martin Cervantez, a combat artist said "The public needs to see this because it's from the soldier's perspective."
Art of the American Soldier opens in September at the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia.
The Daily Telegraph 21 July 2010
A soldier stares into the distance, shell-shocked by the reality of the battlefield in a picture painted by a man who witnessed it first-hand. Tom Lea was serving with the US Army when he created That 2,000-yard Stare in 1944.
The Second World War painting is one of more than 300 artworks by servicemen and women going on display for the first time. The exhibition covers every conflict fought by American soldiers from the First World War to Afghanistan.
The hardship is briefly forgotten in Bob Hope Entertaining Troops Somewhere in England, painted by Floyd Davis in 1943. It shows the comedian in a metal helmet and a trench coat performing for laughing soldiers. Col Peter Crean, deputy director of the Army Centre of Military History, said depicting war through painting gave it an extra level. "War is a totally emotional experience and the medium of painting brings that out in a way other mediums cannot" he said. Master Sgt Martin Cervantez, a combat artist said "The public needs to see this because it's from the soldier's perspective."
Art of the American Soldier opens in September at the National Constitution Centre in Philadelphia.
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