Exhibition of U.S. war paintings from MacArthur's New Guinea campaign

Paintings by LT. SIMON—Continued BARSE MILLER is thoroughly American, of pioneer stock whose families have contributed well-known names in the arts. He was born in New York City and educated on the eastern seaboard. As a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy 58. MARINE - - - D r a w i n g - - - January, 1944 of Fine Arts, was twice winner of Cresson Travelling Scholarships to Europe. At Cape Gloucester. Returning from Europe in 1924, he married and settled in California, where he has played a major role in the development of that section's school of painting. He is widely known as a watercolorist, muralist in true fresco, and as a teacher. 59. FATIGUE - - - D r a w i n g - - - November, 1 943 From California Miller has chosen to watch the panorama of the American scene, A mobile canteen worker in New Guinea. painting its people and its landscape, and his paintings have found their way into many museums and private collections. 60. ELEGY IN A NEW GUINEA GRAVEYARD - November, 1943 War came, and Miller went into uniform too, after recording the training phases Oil of the war in a series of feature articles for a nationally known magazine. When the War Department organized a program to send American artists to the battle- fronts, Captain Parse Miller was chosen to lead the unit overseas to the South 61. E VA C UA T I ON - - O i l - - - May 17, 1 Pacific Area. His pictures show that he has been moved deeply by the experience While under fire, after the initial phase of the Wadke Island and it has called out new capabilities in his art. Invasion, medics hastily applied first-aid and prepared stretchers for the wounded . . . then you wait for the mercy ships. FREDE VIDAR was born on Asko, Denmark, June 6, 1911. Studied at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; The Royal Academy of Denmark, 62. D.A.T. - - - - O i l - - - November, 1943 Copenhagen; L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; L'Academie Julian, Paris; and the Over the Owen Stanley Mountains in a crowded air transport. Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Associate of the Royal Academy of Denmark, and of the American Academy of Rome. Member of the Society of Mural Painters, the San Francisco Art 63. AIR TRANSPORT (1) - - G r a p h i c - - November, 1 943 , and the Society of American Military Engineers. 1929 to 1930—Novice at the Benedictine Monastery of Nuestra Senora de Lluch, 64. AIR TRANSPORT (2) - - G r a p h i c - - November, 1943 Spain. Research and painting in Europe from 1930 to 1933. Observer and artist with the insurgent forces during the Cuban revolution of 1933. Awarded 65. AIR EVACUATION - G r a p h i c - - - December, 1943 the National Chaloner Fellowship for 1934, 1935, and 1936. Retrospective exhibition at the Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen, 1936, at the command of Australian wounded from the battle for Sattelburg will soon find H.R.M. the King of Denmark. In 1937, appointed as official painter for the peace in a rear base hospital. ecclesiastic council of the Monastic Republic of Mont Athos, Macedonia. Mural painting in the United States from 1938 to 1942. He is represented in public and 66. YOUNG MARINE - Graphic January, 1944 private collections throughout America and Europe. - - - At Cape Gloucester. SIDNEY SIMON was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1917. From 1932 to 1936, he studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; 1936 67. NEW GUINEA EXPLORER - Conte' Drawing - April, 1944 to 1 940, studied painting and mural decoration at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. For two years, during this period, had privilege of being a member of the distinguished Barnes Foundation. He was awarded First Honorable Mention, Prix de Rome, 1940. Due to the outbreak of hostilities in Europe, he travelled about United States and Mexico on the Emlen Cresson Travelling Fellowship. He was the first American to win the Edwin Austin Abbey three-year Fellowship. Prior to completion of the first year as Fellow of the Foundation, he was inducted into the Armed Services. He is represented in public and private collections.