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First World War Militaria


The Birks Foundation one step further than militaria items.  We throughly investigate information about the war era itself.  This gives us a view into the past about the people and actions that effected the outcome of the wars fought.

War Artists - First World War:  Choose from the links Below:

War Artists

  • Muirhead Bone
  • William Orpen
  • John Lavery
  • Paul Nash
  • John Nash
  • William Roberts
  • Frank Brangwyn
  • Henry Lamb
  • Colin Gill
  • Mark Gertler
  • Gilbert Ledward
  • Sidney Carline
  • George Clausen
  • Henri Gaudier
  • Stanhope Forbes
  • Austin Osman Spare
  • Oskar Kokoschka
  • Francis Dodd
  • Charles Nevinson
  • William Rothenstein
  • Eric Kennington
  • Stanley Spencer
  • John Singer Sargent
  • P. Wyndham Lewis
  • Georges Leroux
  • Augustus John
  • David Bomberg
  • Henry Tonks
  • Charles Jagger
  • Bernard Meninsky
  • Walter Bayes
  • Philip Wilson Steer
  • Charles Pears
  • Paul Klee

War Cartoonists & Illustrators: Britain

  • Will Dyson
  • F. W. Townsend
  • Leonard Raven-Hill
  • George Stampa
  • Henry M. Brock
  • Sidney Strube
  • Alfred Leete
  • David Wilson
  • Lewis Baumer
  • George Morrow
  • Edmund Sullivan
  • Bert Thomas
  • James Shepherd
  • Richard Caton Woodville
  • F.G. Lewin
  • Bruce Bairnsfather
  • Frank Reynolds
  • Barnard Partridge
  • Frederick Pegram
  • Cyril Bird
  • Gerald Pryse
  • John Hassall
  • Saville Lumley
  • George Belcher
  • H. M. Bateman
  • Jack B. Yeats
  • James Dowd
  • Claud Fraser
  • Fortunino Matania
  • A. Wallis Mills

Artists, Cartoonists & Illustrators: USA

  • Art Young
  • Thomas Eakins
  • Boardman Robinson
  • Robert Minor
  • Stuart Davis
  • Rockwell Kent
  • Frank Schoonover
  • Dean Cornwell
  • Joseph Leyendecker
  • Howard Christy
  • George Luks
  • William Gropper
  • John Sloan
  • Robert Henri
  • George Bellows
  • K. R. Chamberlain
  • Maurice Becker
  • James M. Flagg
  • Joseph Pennell
  • Ben Shahn
  • Alonzo Foringer
  • Charles Falls
  • Edward Hopper
  • Cliff Berryman

Cartoonists & Illustrators: Germany

  • Karl Arnold
  • Lucian Bernhard
  • Gustav Brandt
  • Otto Dix
  • Hans Rudi Erdt
  • Fritz Erler
  • Julius Gipkens
  • George Grosz
  • Olaf Gulbransson
  • John Heartfield
  • Thomas Heine
  • Ludwig Hohlwein
  • Arthur Johnson
  • Kathe Kollwitz
  • Bruno Paul
  • Erich Schilling
  • Eduard Thony
  • Walter Trier

War Cartoonists & Illustrators: Various

  • Louis Raemaekers
  • Henri Paul Gassier
  • Dominique Fouqueray
  • Lucien-Hector Jonas
  • Maximilian Lenz
  • Luciano Mauzan
  • Mihaly Biro
  • Pal Sujan
  • Dmitri Orlov
  • Jean Veber
  • Livingstone Hopkins
  • Jean Jacques Waltz
  • Adolf Karpellus
  • Norman Lindsay
  • Maurice Neumont
  • Jules Abel Faivre
  • George-Bertin Scott
  • Victor Deni

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