When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Ernest Peixotto was eager to lend his hand to the effort.
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How Afghanistan’s ‘Rugs of War’ Helped Its Citizens Tell the Story of Conflict
Decades of armed conflict in Afghanistan have transformed the iconography of one of the country’s traditional art forms
Sketching a War’s Toll
South Korea’s most famous cartoonist cut his teeth as an artist in the early 1950s while war raged through—and devastated—his homeland.
Women Who Have Taken Up Arms Throughout History
Throughout history women have taken up arms for all kinds of reasons. Here are the stories of eight who went to war—and why.
Air Raids Over Paris
Maurice Busset used an age-old medium—wood-block prints—to depict Germany’s terrifying air raids on Paris during World War I.
Artists on War: Baron Gros and The Pesthouse in Jaffa
Long before modern politicians used the media to mold public opinion, a Corsican first […]
Artists | A Warrior’s Ledger Domain
Howling Wolf memorialized his exploits in vivid and colorful drawings—even while he was imprisoned […]
Artists | Propaganda with a Passion
Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers gained international fame with his anti-German cartoons during World War […]
Artists | Sketches of War
Victor Lundy is best known as a modernist architect. But a set of his old sketchbooks offers a vivid visual diary of life—and death—in wartime
Artists | Eyewitness to Horror
Published 35 years after his death, Goya’s The Disasters of War has etched the cruel suffering of war into our collective memory.