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- Franz Marc, 2018
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Navy Ensign, 2018
Oil on panel, 16×20″
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- Serbian Female Soldier,2018
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Red Cross Nurse, 2018
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20″
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- Kaiser, 2016
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- World Safe, 2017
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30″
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- Algerian Soldier, 2018
Oil on cardboard, 9 x 12″
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- TE Lawrence, 2017
Oil on paper, 9 x 12″
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- American Soldier, 2017
Oil on paper, 9 x 12″
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- Black Jack Pershing, 2017
Oil on paper, 9 x 12″
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- Russian Nurse, 2017
Oil on paper, 9 x 12″
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- German Soldat 3, 2017
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Royal Naval Reserve Volunteer ,2017
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Red Cross Nurse, 2017
Oil on paper, 9 x 12″
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- American Buffalo Soldier, 2016
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10″
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- Ambulance Driver, 2016
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10″
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- Man With Facial Wound, 2016
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Gas Mask, 2016
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10″
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- Algerian Trailleur, 2016
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- (Female) Russian Soldier, 2017
Oil on paper, 9 x 12″
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- A Flight of Swallows, 2016
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- After the Barrage, 2016
Oil on panel, 7 x 5″
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- Swallow (Winged Victory), 2016
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- L’Hirondelle, 2015
Oil on canvas, 72 x 72″
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- French Soldier Wearing Facial Mask, 2015
Oil on panel, 8 x 10
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- Wounded Poilu,2015
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- English Red Cross Nurse, 2015
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- German Soldat #2, 2015
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- American Soldier, 2015
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Pity of War Line Up Oil on paper, 30 x 20″
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- Algerian Spahi, 2015
Oil on paper, 20 x 30″
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- Soldier, King’s African Rifles, 2015
Oil on paper, 20 x 30″
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- Buffalo Soldier, 2014
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- Red Cross Nurse (English), 2014
Oil on panel, 8 x 10
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- Australian Sailor (HMS Melbourne), 2014
Oil on panel, 8 x 10
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- Australian Soldier, Lt Cavalry Brigade (Detail), 2014
Oil on panel, 12 x 12
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- Red Cross Nurse (American) 2014
Oil on panel, 12 x 12″
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- Last Living Poilu 2014
Oil on panel, 8 x 10″
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- German Soldat, 2014
Oil on panel, 8 x 10
Through a chance encounter with a haunting image of a WW1 German soldier, I realized I had a special connection to The Great War, the war that was supposed to end war.
I began “The Pity of War” in 2014 as a four-year undertaking to coincide with the centennial of the WW1 conflict. Searching through the vast photographic archive, I found French poilus, Russian infantrywomen, German Leutnants, British munitions workers, American doughboys—people thrown together in an apocalypse that violated all notions of what it meant to be a human being.
As I paint these portraits, each individual becomes vital and familiar. With the completion of each painting, the invisible line that stretches from me to them, from our time to theirs, becomes more dynamic. We stand face to face and engage in a dialog about violence, war and destruction and about dignity, wisdom and compassion.
The project title comes from the English poet Wilfred Owen, whose own poetry unflinchingly describes the horrors he experienced as a soldier in the trenches of WW1: “My subject is War and the Pity of War. The poetry is in the pity.”
Details on “The Pity of War.”
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