Category:American Expeditionary Forces Art Program

English: The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were the armed forces that the United States sent to Europe during World War I. The AEF had eight official artists who documented its activities during the war: William James Alyward, Walter Jack Duncan, Harvey Thomas Dunn, George Matthews Harding, Wallace Morgan, Ernest Clifford Peixotto, J. André Smith, and Harry Everett Townsend. During the nine months the AEF artists, as captains in the Engineer Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, visited the battlefields and rear areas in France. They produced more than 700 sketches, drawings, and paintings depicting combat, military technology, daily life, and the human cost of war. In December 1918, near 200 of the artworks were exhibited in New York City (The Smithsonian).