World War I Beyond the Trenches transforms the current understanding of art made during the war and in its wake. World War I was divisive in the United States, and artists responded through their work on the home front, on battlefields, and afterward in witnessing the impact on their lives and in society. Coinciding with the centennial of America’s involvement in the conflict, the exhibition will explore how artists across generations, aesthetic sensibilities, and the political spectrum used their work to depict, memorialize, promote, or oppose the conflict. The installation at the New-York Historical Society will feature approximately 60 works by such artists as George Bellows, James Montgomery Flagg, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Georgia O’Keeffe, Man Ray, John Singer Sargent, Edward Steichen, and Claggett Wilson. Supplemental displays elsewhere in the Museum will showcase recruitment and war bond posters, military uniforms, and World War I toy soldiers. Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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