American official war artists

The war artist captures instantaneous action and conflates earlier moments of the same scene within one compelling image.

[3] In 1941, the Navy Combat Art Program was founded in order to ensure that competent artists would be present at the scene of history-making events.

These teams of five soldier-artists typically spent 60 days of temporary duty (TDY) in Vietnam embedded with various units.

But the Marine Corps is fixated on Marines.Military art and the work of American military artists includes both peacetime and wartime.

For example, USMC combat artist Kristopher Battles deployed with American forces in Haiti to provide humanitarian relief as part of Operation Unified Response after the disastrous earthquake in 2010.