| Gassed (detail), The British War Memorials Committee
of the Ministry of Information commissioned the American painter John Singer
Sargent to paint a large-scale war scene for a projected Hall of Remembrance
in London. Sargent's work, completed in the Winter of 1918-1919, commemorated
the sacrifice, honor, and spirit of war. Sargent captured the moment at
which German soldiers released mustard gas on British troops in France,
on the Western Front. Source: National Gallery of Art: John Singer
Sargent Show, Catalogue (1999). |
