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NEW REFLECTIONS ON OLD COMBAT ART, part 3

Illustration Art

For me, the work of Harry Townsend was among the most impressive art in the Smithsonian's exhibition of World War I art. Townsend wrote in his war diary, "Only those near to it all can know what endurance and suffering that was." He was thankful to be there in the battles of the Marne, and of St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne, for the "impressions, spiritual and material, that alone can furnish the inspiration for a convincing pictorial record.

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