Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
Datenot dated
Artist
Harold Matthews Brett
(American illustrator, 1880–1955)
Illustration CitationDate and place of publication not identified.
MediumOil on board
Dimensions26 3/4 × 18 3/4 in. (67.9 × 47.6 cm)
frame: 32 × 24 1/8 in. (81.3 × 61.3 cm)
frame: 32 × 24 1/8 in. (81.3 × 61.3 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1978
Object number1978-605
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextHarold Brett was a painter as well as illustrator. He had already studied art in Boston and New York when he became one of Pyle's advanced students in 1906. Although there is no evidence that he spent time in Europe during World War I, he illustrated a number of scenes of soldiers in action, including this view of American infantrymen in a muddy and smoky trench firing a light machine gun at attacking aircraft.
