Machine Gun Emplacement
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
label: associated date
content: 1917 - 1918
name: label: associated person
content: Dunn, Harvey Thomas
label: artist
content: Dunn, Harvey Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: 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"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: depicted
content: France: Grand Est, Département de Meurthe-et-Moselle
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25709
label: catalog number
content: 25709
label: accession number
content: 64592
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oil (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 39 3/4 in x 1 9/16 in; 66.04 cm x 100.965 cm x 3.96875 cm