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Images of the Unimaginable: Art from the First World War
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I (1914鈥�1918), the Mead presents Images of the Unimaginable, featuring artworks and documents from the Great War. The exhibition showcases the Mead鈥檚 collection of works by early twentieth-century Russian artists, including Natalia Goncharova鈥檚 print series Mystical Images of War, and Olga Rozanova鈥檚 linocuts War. American artists include Childe Hassam and Waldo Peirce, who sent postcards and letters from the front lines home to his friend George Bellows, whose prints are also on view in the show. Swiss painter and printmaker F茅lix Vallotton, who could not join the army because of his age, captured the war in his signature black-and-white woodcuts. Photographs by members of Amherst College鈥檚 ambulance corps, known as the 鈥淏lack Cat Squadron,鈥� and posters from the war complement the artists鈥� views in this centennial exhibition.
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I (1914鈥�1918), the Mead presents Images of the Unimaginable, featuring artworks and documents from the Great War. The exhibition showcases the Mead鈥檚 collection of works by early twentieth-century Russian artists, including Natalia Goncharova鈥檚 print series Mystical Images of War, and Olga Rozanova鈥檚 linocuts War. American artists include Childe Hassam and Waldo Peirce, who sent postcards and letters from the front lines home to his friend George Bellows, whose prints are also on view in the show. Swiss painter and printmaker F茅lix Vallotton, who could not join the army because of his age, captured the war in his signature black-and-white woodcuts. Photographs by members of Amherst College鈥檚 ambulance corps, known as the 鈥淏lack Cat Squadron,鈥� and posters from the war complement the artists鈥� views in this centennial exhibition.
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