Franklin BOGGS pencil signed lithograph titled NIGHT EVACUATION dated 1944

Description: Fine military WW2 lithograph by Franklin BOGGS . It is titled .signed and dated in pencil . EXCELLENT condition . Image area is 9 1/2" x 13 3/4" . Sheet is 12 " x 16" Shipping is 15. PLEASE see my other art. Bio below . Educated at the Fort Wayne Art School and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Franklin Boggs traveled in Europe on two Fellowships, and was there at the beginning of World War II in 1939 and barely escaped from the Nazis in Paris. In Europe, he became fascinated by mural painting, and later as a teacher in Wisconsin, had a chance to study mural painting in Uruguay and Argentina.His art career began as an artist of the TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority and as a painter of murals for the U.S. Post Office. In 1944, he became a war artist- correspondent for Abbott Laboratories and documented the work of the Army Medical Department in the South Pacific. In this capacity, he did many dramatic, highly realistic paintings of the ravages of battle. Among his titles are Race Against Death, South Sea Island Paradise, Battalion Aid Station and Shock Tent. The paintings, done in his studio after the war, resulted from the many photographs and sketches he obtained on site. His career was documented in the PBS documentary They Drew Fire.After the war, Boggs painted on commission in South America and then became a full professor and artist-in-residence at Beloit College in Wisconsin. He was associated with that art department from 1945 to 1977. There he continued to paint as a muralist, and his murals are in eight states and in Finland. His largest mural, History of Medicine in Louisiana, is 112 feet long and five-feet high, and is installed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the Edith Garland Dupré Library. Following is the description from the Beloit Magazine, Fall 2002:The Louisiana mural was the result of a post-war commission from the Aloe Company of New Orleans, a subsidiary of Sherwood Medical Industries. Prof. Boggs made numerous trips to New Orleans in the process of his research. "Frank was extremely careful in his research, and when he started this work, the history of Louisiana medicine had not yet been written," says Vern Shaffer'50, his former student and later an art department colleague.Prof. Boggs was fortunate to have had the assistance of Dr. Matas, whose career included the development of many groundbreaking procedures and associations with Dr. Carlos Finley and Walter Reed, both of whom contributed to an understanding of the role of mosquitos in the spread of disease.In a turn that could have come directly out of a Twilight Zone episode, Prof. Boggs acquired first-hand details of the first nuclear tests in the Pacific by complete chance as he was returning from New Orleans. One rainy night while driving through Illinois, he picked up a hitchhiker who revealed he was a sailor on leave from duty in the Pacific. The rider had no problem telling this friendly stranger that he had been at Bikini for the atomic tests. When Boggs expressed interest, the sailor talked on and eventually left Prof. Boggs with a report on the Bikini tests, prepared on-board a ship on its way back to the States. It noted animals and structures that had been exposed to the explosion and became the source for the content of the mural's dramatic final panel.The mural was painted in 1946 and 1947 on the first floor of Memorial Hall, in Beloit's Logan Museum of Anthropology. Railway Express backed up a truck to the east door of Memorial Hall so that the artist could load the panels himself. Then they were shipped on stretchers via boxcar to New Orleans.The mural was designed for the lobby of Aloe Company headquarters, whose doors faced Tulane Medical Center across the street. The panels were installed to accommodate stainless steel pillars that surrounded the lobby. Prof. Boggs supervised the 1948 installation, which made use of a special adhesive he developed of white lead and varnish that would hold the weight of the large canvas at ceiling level in the legendary humidity of the Delta.For 25 years, it hung as a focal point for visitors and the medical community. Many doctors who attended the recent dedication spoke of developing an attachment to the mural as students, when they came to the Aloe lobby to purchase medical instruments.In 1972, when Tulane purchased the building and prepared to demolish it to accommodate a new hospital and clinic, Prof. Boggs traveled to New Orleans to oversee the removal of the mural. His adhesive formula had done a formidable job, and he notes that people were paid more to remove the mural than he had been paid to paint it. It was removed without damage.Affection for the mural prompted its installation in the main dining room of the medical school, this time on plywood. While enjoyed by students, physicians, and visitors to the cafeteria, it was hardly in the best setting. Several years later, during a renovation, it was removed."For a period of time it disappeared, and in the 1990s was found in storage. In 2002, it was re-installed, the money having been raised by persons committed to its preservation.

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Location: Montgomery, New York

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