American Soldiers
date: label: date made
content: 1918-06-07
label: associated date
content: 1917-1918
name: label: associated person
content: War Department
label: maker
content: Duncan, Walter Jack
notes: label: Description
content: Very light ink wash and brush with touches of graphite. This interior scene is framed by the sloping roof of a loft. In the left foreground, a soldier sits on a cot holding his gun. A sword hangs on the wall in the right of the sketch. Two more soldiers can be seen through a doorway on the back wall of the loft. The sketch is done on beige wove paper mounted on beige card which is ruled in graphite. A label below the sketch, mounted on the card, reads: "AMERICAN SOLDIERS/Quartered in the loft of an old barn on the/outskirts of Chateau Thierry/BY W. J. DUNCAN/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2847"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: referenced
content: France: Hauts-de-France, Château-Thierry
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
label: See more items in
content: Military
label: See more items in
content: Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
label: See more items in
content: World War I Art
label: See more items in
content: Art
label: See more items in
content: Combat Art
label: See more items in
content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25689
label: catalog number
content: 25689
label: accession number
content: 64592
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sketch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink wash (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 5/8 in x 16 in; 29.5275 cm x 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: sketch: 6 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 17.145 cm x 26.035 cm