Other DisciplinesArt

The Great War inspired a wide range of visual art: propaganda posters, official military artwork, anti-war works, monuments and memorials, and more.

Featured links:

War Art

Online exhibition representing the wide range of art to come out of the war, from "high art" to "trench art". | The National World War I Museum & Memorial

Artist Soldiers

Artistic Expression in the First World War - Website accompanying an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. (4/6/17 ~ 11/11/18) | National Air and Space Museum

Lessons/resources

Search the National WWI Museum & Memorial Resource Database

More resources/lessons

» World War I Art: Smithsonian Institution Collections

Digitized collection; created by artists sent overseas by the War Department

» World War I and the Visual Arts

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, highlights the diverse ways artists represented the horrors of modern warfare.

» Artists Document World War I

Online activity and discussion, built around artwork of U.S. troops arriving in France. | National Archives