Object Details
- associated person
- Dunn, Harvey Thomas
- artist
- Dunn, Harvey Thomas
- Description
- Oil painting on canvas of an American machine gun emplacement at Seicheprey, France. Two American soldiers in olive drab uniforms are sitting in the middle of a cemetery next to their Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun. There are tombstones all around the soldiers, some of which have toppled over. A section of the rock wall surrounding the cemetery has been partially destroyed at right, giving the machine gunners a better sight line. The soldiers have positioned the gun on the rubble from the ruined wall, with the barrel of the gun pointing out of the cemetery. Signed by the artist at bottom left, "Harvey Dunn, Saishprey [sic], AEF"
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917 - 1918
- ID Number
- AF.25709
- catalog number
- 25709
- accession number
- 64592
- Object Name
- Painting
- Physical Description
- oil (overall production method/technique)
- canvas (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 26 in x 39 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in; 66.04 cm x 100.965 cm x 3.96875 cm
- depicted
- France: Grand Est, Département de Meurthe-et-Moselle
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_447428
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-1d2f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
