F14 Walsh - RCCORE 100 - The Arts and Great War

A human face in anguish, with hands raised to his cheeks, looks out from the center of a visual field full of slashing diagonals and explosive triangles of color. On the left side, smoke billows.
Otto Dix
Artillery Battle (Artillerieschlacht)
charcoal and gouache on paper mounted on linen
22 3/10 in x 22 ⅛ in x 1 ½ in (56.67 cm x 56.2 cm x 3.81 cm);22 3/10 in x 22 ⅛ in x 1 ½ in (56.67 cm x 56.2 cm x 3.81 cm);16 in x 15 ⅝ in (40.64 cm x 39.69 cm)
Museum Purchase
Otto Dix
Abandoned Position near Vis-en-Artois, from 'Der Krieg'
etching, drypoint and aquatint on paper
7 9/16 in x 10 in (19.21 cm x 25.4 cm);7 9/16 in x 10 in (19.21 cm x 25.4 cm);19 ¼ in x 14 ¼ in (48.89 cm x 36.2 cm);18 ⅜ in x 13 ½ in (46.67 cm x 34.29 cm)
Museum Purchase
Otto Dix
Soldatengrab zwischen den Linien (Soldier's Grave between the Lines), from "Der Krieg"
etching, drypoint and aquatint on paper
7 ⅝ in x 11 ¼ in (19.37 cm x 28.58 cm);7 ⅝ in x 11 ¼ in (19.37 cm x 28.58 cm);19 ¼ in x 14 ¼ in (48.89 cm x 36.2 cm);13 4/5 in x 18 ¾ in (35.08 cm x 47.63 cm)
Museum Purchase
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Die Sonne, No. 3 from the series 10 Holzschnitte...
woodcut on paper
19 ⅞ in x 24 ½ in (50.48 cm x 62.23 cm);26 ⅛ in x 32 ⅛ in (66.36 cm x 81.6 cm)
Museum Purchase
Käthe Kollwitz
'Bauernkrieg' (Peasant War Cycle). Losbruch (Outbreak)
aquatint and etching on paper
22 1/16 in x 28 11/16 in (56.04 cm x 72.87 cm);27 15/16 in x 32 ⅛ in (70.96 cm x 81.6 cm)
Museum Purchase
George Grosz
A Dream
pen, ink and wash on off-white laid paper
8 11/16 in x 11 ¼ in (22.07 cm x 28.58 cm);14 ⅜ in x 19 ⅜ in (36.51 cm x 49.21 cm);7 9/16 in x 9 ⅛ in (19.21 cm x 23.18 cm)
Museum Purchase
A man clothed in pants, shoes, and a long-sleeved shirt sits at a small table with his hands folded. Part of a loaf of bread sits on the upper left corner of the table. The man is in a small room with a small, square, barred window high on the wall behind him. There is a toilet without a lid behind him to his left.
George Grosz
In Prison
ink on wove paper
18 13/16 in x 12 3/8 in (47.78 cm x 31.43 cm);24 in x 17 1/2 in (60.96 cm x 44.45 cm)
Gift of Herbert Barrows
Christian Rohlfs
Juggler
color woodcut on paper
14 5/8 in. x 17 7/16 in. ( 37.1 cm x 44.3 cm )
Museum Purchase
Three-quarter profile view of a woman’s face
Käthe Kollwitz
Self-portrait
lithograph on paper
21 3/4 x 14.9 in. (55.25 x 37.94 cm);22 1/8 x 28 1/8 in. (56.2 x 71.44 cm);9 x 11 1/2 in. (22.86 x 29.21 cm)
Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
This woodcut print of an abstracted landscape is done in green, red, yellow, blue, and black. An architectural form appears on the left and an archer on horseback appears in the lower right corner.  
Wassily Kandinsky
The Archer
woodblock on paper
6 1/2 in x 6 in (16.5 cm x 15.2 cm);12 3/16 in x 9 1/2 in (30.9 cm x 24.1 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49 cm x 36.3 cm)
Museum purchase
Max Beckmann
Hunger. No. 4 from the Series of Ten Prints, 'Die Hölle' (Hell).
lithograph on paper
33 ⅞ in x 24 7/16 in (86.04 cm x 62.07 cm);32 1/16 in x 26 1/16 in (81.44 cm x 66.2 cm);27 15/16 in x 26 in (70.96 cm x 66.04 cm);24 ¾ in x 19 ½ in (62.87 cm x 49.53 cm)
Museum Purchase
László Moholy-Nagy
Militarism (Militarismus)
gelatin silver print from rephotographed photomontage on paper
7 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in (17.94 cm x 13.02 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);7 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in (17.94 cm x 13.02 cm);6 3/4 in x 4 13/16 in (17.15 cm x 12.22 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

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