"That's Where Their Third Army Is."
Date1910
Illustration Citation"The Joint in the Harness," by Ole Luk-Oie, in McClure's Magazine, March 1910
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/4 × 19 1/4 in. (76.8 × 48.9 cm)
frame: 34 3/4 × 23 1/4 in. (88.3 × 59.1 cm)
frame: 34 3/4 × 23 1/4 in. (88.3 × 59.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-164
On View
Not on viewThis story centers on military conflicts in Eastern Europe in the decade before World War I. Ernest D. Swinton was a British engineer who assumed the pseudonym Ole Luk-Oie (a figure from Hans Christian Andersen's tales) to conceal his identity as a clandestine military specialist.


