No Man's Land
National Museum of American History

No Man's Land

Dunn, Harvey Thomas · 1918-10

charcoal (overall production method/technique)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

A charcoal and watercolor drawing on paper of a typical scene in No Man's Land during World War I. Depicted is a deserted, empty ruin of tree stumps and barbed wire with smoke in the background. At left is a dead horse next to a human skull. At right is a dead soldier with a rifle staked into the ground and a helmet lying beside the rifle. There is a crashed airplane in the distance. Signed by the artist at bottom right, "Harvey Dunn, AEF, Oct. 1918"

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