The Railhead Dump at Ménil-la-Tour
date: label: date made
content: 1918-06
name: label: maker
content: Smith, J. Andre
notes: label: Description
content: A charcoal and watercolor sketch on brown paper mounted on a white matte paper sealed in the front with a glass sheet and backed by a plastic sheet wrapped in plastic wrap. The scene is of a railhead dump at Menil-la-Tour. Approximately nine men wearing blue, possibly French, are seen in the sketch all over the picture. Seven men are working around a tall pile of baled hay seen in the center of the sketch. Another two men are working on the right side, dragging a sheet. Several tall covered piles are seen besides the hay pile. Two flat cars are seen on the rails. Trash is seen in on the right side behind a lone tree. Behind the trash is a building.
label: Description
content: The sketch is mostly colored, but it is not entirely sketched. The sky is colored blue. The tree and the grass are painted green. Other colors include light blue, red, and brown/pink for the ground.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: depicted
content: France: Grand Est, Ménil-la-Tour
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: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.26058
label: catalog number
content: 26058
label: accession number
content: 64592
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sketch
label: Other Terms
content: sketch; Watercolor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mat board (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: charcoal (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: watercolor (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall; in frame: 11 5/16 in x 14 7/8 in; 28.73375 cm x 37.7825 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/16 in x 11 7/8 in; 21.11375 cm x 30.1625 cm