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Description: Profiles of artists and examples of their art.
It was in July 1917 that the idea of official war artists to be sent to France was proposed by the Committee on Public Information, which had been recently organized to coordinate propaganda for the war effort. The U.S. Army Signal Corps took up the idea but at first its plans came to nothing. In December 1917 Captain Aymar Embury II, of the Engineer Reserve Corps, himself an artist, asked Major-General William M. Black, Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers if it would be possible for the Engineers to take up the plan, as apparently the Signal Corps was not going to proceed. The Army Engineers already had a number of artists serving at the time, primarily in camouflage units. General Black, convinced of the merits of the scheme, sought and obtained consent from the War Department to launch the program. Embury was then instructed to submit the names of four painters who might be likely candidates and General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, was consulted on the matter. Pershing quickly agreed that such appointments would be desirable and asked that the four be sent abroad immediately.
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