The Night Before the Battle, (painting)

Object Details

Notes: Peters, Susan D., ed., "Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection," Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in association with Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1988, pg. 197.; Memorial Art Gallery, 1984.; American Art Review (Aug. 1977), p. [8].
Summary: Several soldiers are asleep in the trenches behind a wall; one is holding an American flag. Behind them, a skeleton stands at a cannon that points into the night. A full moon is in the upper left corner.

Owner/Location: University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Avenue Rochester New York 14607 Accession Number: 78.15

Topic: Fantasy; Figure group; Occupation--Military; Object--Other--Flag; Object--Weapon--Cannon; Skeleton; Landscape--Celestial--Moon; Landscape--Time--Night