Clearing Out the Road through Mont St. Père
date: label: date made
content: 1918
name: label: associated person
content: War Department
label: artist
content: Aylward, William James
notes: label: Description
content: Charcoal and gouache on beige textured paper mounted on brown card. The work depicts soldiers clearing rubble off the road that goes through Mont-Saint-Père. The large building that dominates the scene is badly damaged from the war.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: depicted
content: France
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: Official Art from the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I
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content: Military
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content: World War I Art
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content: Art
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content: Combat Art
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Krass, Peter. Portrait of War: The U.S. Army’s First Combat Artists and the Doughboys’ Experience in WWI
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.25651
label: catalog number
content: 25651
label: accession number
content: 64592
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: charcoal (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: gouache (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (with brown card): 18 1/4 in x 25 3/8 in; 46.355 cm x 64.4525 cm
label: Measurements
content: drawing (beige textured paper only): 17 1/2 in x 23 3/16 in; 44.45 cm x 58.89625 cm