Troops Use Camels
Date1943
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 7 7/8 × 4 15/16 in. (20 × 12.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.518
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOn January 8, 1943, an item in newspapers announced that French and American troops had used camels to take Tanout Maller from the Italians in north Africa. Sloan imagined an armored camel with a mounted gun.
