Gassed is on the move!

  • Liz Renes

    Liz Renes

  • October 19, 2016

Gassed, 1918, Courtesy of WikiArt

As part of the exhibition 'World War I and American Art', the IWM sends Sargent's monumental Gassed to Philadelphia.

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For further material on the work, we recommend David M. Lubin, 'War, Authority, and Blindness in British and American Visual Cultures, 1914-1922', Art History 34.4 (September 2011), 796-817; Sue Malvern, 'War, Memory and Museums: Art and Artefact in the Imperial War Museum,' History Workshop Journal 49 (Spring 2000), 177-203; James C. Harris, 'Gassed', Archives of General Psychiatry 62.1 (January 2005), 15-18.