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Jungle Rations - Guadalcanal

1945

Howard Cook

(American, 1901–1980)
Culture
America
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
Sheet: 48.6 x 35.5 cm (19 1/8 x 14 in.); Image: 40 x 28.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John Bonebrake 2012.285
Catalogue raisonné
Duffy and Duffy 204
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Description

Bonebrake served in the United States Army during World War II and was sent to Italy, Japan, and the Philippines. Cook served as an artist war correspondent in the Solomon Isalnds, also in the western Pacific, in 1943-44. His powerful image of a soldier on the largest of these islands, Guadalcanal, the site of a bitter battle between the American and Japanese forces in 1942-43, resonated with Bonebrake.
A vertically oriented lithograph depicts a seated man with medium-dark skin tone facing left, gazing at a small object held in both hands. He wears a rumpled field uniform and a heavy backpack with a shovel. A helmet and rifle rest on the ground near his boots. Shaded foliage arcs behind him, while strong light from the upper left illuminates his face. A signature and date (see "Inscriptions") appear in the lower right.

Jungle Rations - Guadalcanal

1945

Howard Cook

(American, 1901–1980)
America

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