Tag: Claggett Wilson

Within months of the armistice that ended the First World War, the American artist Claggett Wilson (1887–1952), who had fought in France as a combat marine, produced a riveting portfolio of two dozen watercolors based on his wartime experiences. Wilson had trained in Paris at the progressive Académie Julien, exhibited at the Armory Show, and been…

The more muted palette here does not detract from the power of the explosion. The sickly yellow glow at the centre, at first, disguise the masked faces rising up on the horizon; a choir invisible, bringers of death. More on this painting Within months of the armistice that ended the First World War, the American artist Claggett…