We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:05:33 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...who knew we military types were so artsy? Resident Rotorhead Bill T chimed in with a comment on my art post below. I decided his point was worth bringing up here, to introduce you guys who may not be that familiar with war art. Bill said: Here comes my two cents-worth: 1. For black-and-white, you can't beat Donald Dickson's stark pencil sketches of the Marines on Guadalcanal ("Killer" is one of his best); 2. For color work, it's Kerr Eby's stuff (never seen anything quite as horrific--on paper--as "The Wound"). But wait--there's more! 3. For cartoons, Bill Mauldin--nobody else (including... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:15:01 -0600 WWII (which I haven't perused in years) last week. My cartoons are on display in offices at all three NG Aviation Training Sites, three or four of the "schoolhouses" at Ft. Rucker, on a bunch of my friends' walls (if they haven't been sold for beer money), on a couple dozen Aviation Safety Non-Awards handed out over the years, and I think I've still got one of my old RVN unit Christmas cards (PG-17: Language) stashed somewhere... IOU one each official Castle Argghhh! caffeine container...is styrofoam okay? =] ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html#comment-10424 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html#comment-10424 Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:04:23 -0600 One of my favorite military paintings was a scene from the Franco-Prussian war, a cavalryman sitting by a house, if I recall correctly. I think the artist's last name began with an M; he was French. Any ideas? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html#comment-10423 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/more_on_combat_art.html#comment-10423 Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:15:46 -0600