In June 1918, Sargent traveled to France as an official war artist for the British government. Commissioned to paint a picture commemorating the joint efforts of American and British troops, he spent four months along the Front, sketching and painting in watercolor as he searched for a subject.
What remains is a sensational series of paintings of conditions of the men, men off duty and situations of camp life.
John Singer Sargent – Studies for Gassed, 1919
John Singer Sargent – Gassed, 1919
John Singer Sargent – Studies for Gassed, 1919
John Singer Sargent – Wheels in Vault, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Truck Convoy, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Trucks, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Camp with Ambulance, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Tommies Bathing, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Tommies Bathing, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Landscape in ein Ruderer, 1918
John Singer Sargent – Dugout, 1918