It was after this attack that the High Command published to the German army: "The moral effect of our own gunfire can not seriously impede the advance of the American Infantry."

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

It was after this attack that the High Command published to the German army: "The moral effect of our own gunfire can not seriously impede the advance of the American Infantry."

Alternate Title(s):Belleau Wood, June 1918

Medium: Oil on canvas

Date: 1930

Dimensions:

36 3/4 × 56 1/4 in. (93.3 × 142.9 cm)

Brandywine River Museum of Art, Bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996

Accession number: 96.1.31

Research Number: NCW: 913

InscribedUpper left: N C WYETH (underlined)

ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth; Carolyn Wyeth

Exhibition HistoryRockland, ME, 2000, color illustration, fig. 38; Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, "Every Picture Tells a Story," April 27-Dec. 30, 2013;

References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 270-271; Colonel Raymond K. Bluhm, Jr., ed., U.S. Army A Complete History (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 2004), illustration in color, p. 537; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1170, p. 537

Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting

Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 10/2000

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It was after this attack that the High Command published to the German army: "The moral effect of our own gunfire can not seriously impede the advance of the American Infantry."

N.C. Wyeth

It was after this attack that the High Command published to the German army: "The moral effect of our own gunfire can not seriously impede the advance of the American Infantry."