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 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