The Art of War How War and Art Help Tell the

American HistoryBy: Kelli Reppart

Art TeacherBerrien Springs Middle School

Revolutionary War

• 1775 to 1783• English Colonist vs. Great Britain

Washington Crossing the Delaware Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC, 1851.

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17,1775

John Trumbull, 1786 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Civil War

• 1861-1865• Union (North) vs. Confederacy (South)

Home, Sweet HomeWinslow Homer, 1863 National Gallery Of Arts, Washington, D.C.

Civil War

World War I

• 1914-1918• Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-

Hungry VS Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia

• United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917

• 320,518 soldiers dead or wounded and 3,350 missing.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

Destroy This Mad BruteUS government related, H.R. Hopps 1917

True Sons of Freedomby: Charles Gustrine, 1918

Wake Up America! James Montgomery Flagg, 1917.

Issued by U.S. Government 1917

1917

GassedJohn Singer Sargent, March 1919, Imperial War Museum, London

World War II

• 1939-1945• Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan VS Major

Allied Powers: United States, Britain, France and Russia

• US joined December 8th, 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

• 1,076,245 soldiers dead or wounded and 30,314 missing.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

Victor Keppler, 1944

Rosie the RiveterJ. Howard Miller, 1942

Jap… You’re Next!James Montgomery Flagg1944

Landing Craft or EmbarkationJacob Lawrence

V-J Day in Time Square(Kissing the War Good-Bye)

Alfred Eisenstaedt, August 14, 1945

Vietnam War

• 1960-1975• United States and South Vietnam VS North

Vietnam• Number of soldiers dead or wounded 211,454

and 2,489 missing

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

FlagJaper Johns, 1954-55, MoMA, New York

(Moratorium) FlagJasper Johns, 1969

Definition: A suspension of an activity.

(Napalm Girl)Nick Ut/AP, June 8th 1972

Phan Thi Kim Phuc Nick UT/AP 1997

War Is Not HealthyLorriane Schneider, 1966

War is Over! If You Want It.John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1971

Burst of JoySlava Veder/ AP March 17, 1973

Iraq and Afghanistan Wars(War on Terror)

• Invasion of Afghanistan 2001 to present• Invasion of Iraq 2003 to Present• Number of soldiers dead or wounded in the

war on terror: 48,430 and 3 missing.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

See the progression?

Uncle Sam, WWI Uncle Sam, Vietnam Uncle oSAMa(?), War on Terror

Artist Unknown found in NYC and LA