Shell ShockHow artists tried to depict the truth of war

• Shell Shock and the Case of Harry Farr

“war neuroses”

• Shell Shock Documentary

• John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,

• Otto Schubert

• November 18, 1915UntitledMy dear Irma, 1000 greetings, your Otto. Many greetings to your family, most of all to your brother.

• December 1, 1915UntitledA thousand greetings, Otto

• March 8, 1916Building a TrenchDear Irma, 1000 greetings, your Otto. [Unclear]

• January 24, 1916Evening Mood at the FrontDear Irma, I hope [unclear] my card. I was so happy to hear from Hedwig. Thanks for your dear package which I received at Christmas. [Rest unclear] Otto

• Ellis Silas, Roll Call, 1920

• George Lambert, Study for dead trooper and detail of Turkish trench, Gallipoli (Pro patria), 24 Feb and 3-4 March 1919.

• George Lambert, 'The Charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915'

• A view looking across the Nek in February 1919

• Silas, The Last Assembly, from Crusading at Anzac, 1915

Silas, At the Water Hole From Crusading at Anzac

Silas, In the Trenches, Quinn’s Post (CaA)

The Hospital Ship Galeka

• Messines Ridge from Hill 63, George Edmund Butler 1918.

• George Edmund Butler, the Fight at the quarry outside Bapaume, 1918

• George Edmund Butler - The Butte, Polygon Wood

George Edmund Butler, Bellevue from Korek, c.1918 (Passchendaele)

Images of Passchendaele

• Butler, A roadside cemetery by Neuve Eglise

• Paul Nash, The Ypres Salient at Night (1918)

• Paul Nash, The Menin Road, 1918

• The Menin Road, Ypres ~ 14 September 1917:

• Chateau Wood; Australian troops walk along duckboards through the remains of Chateau Wood, Third Ypres

• Paul Nash, Wire, 1918

"I am no longer an artist interested and curious, I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on for ever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn their lousy souls.” (Nov 16 1917 letter to his wife)

• Sunrise, Inverness Copse

• Paul Nash, we are making a new world

• Battle of MeninRoad Ridge, 20 -25 September 1917: A German KIA, his arm flung across his chest, in the wreckage of a gun emplacement near Zonnebeke.

• The MeninRoad by N. E. Fiske

• Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 74.5 cm

• George Edmund Butler, Menin Road from Hooge Crater, c.1918

• John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,

• Warning: next image is gruesome.

Anna Coleman Ladd’s Studio

• Christmas party at Anna Ladd’s studio, 1919

• Sculptors and artists designed lifelike masks for gravely wounded soldiers. (Anna Coleman Ladd papers, Archives of American Art, S.I.)

Anna Coleman Ladd, studio for prosthetic masks

Horace Nicholls, Repairing War's Ravages: Renovating Facial Injuries. Various plates and attachments in different stages of completion. (From Francis Wood’s studio, ca. 1916

Postwar Art in Germany

• (warning: graphic & violent images ahead)

• Otto Dix, The Trench,

• Die Nacht (The Night), Max Beckman, 1918-1919

• 52 x 60 inches

• Oil on canvas

• Neue Sachlichkeit

• (new objectivity)

• George Grosz, Made in Germany, 1920

• drawn in pen 1919, photo-lithograph published 1920 in the portfolio God with us (Gott mit Uns)

• George Grosz as Dada Death in Berlin, 1918

• The Eclipse of the sun, George Grosz, 1926

• George Grosz, War Cripples

Dix, Gassed to Death, 1924

• John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,