November 11-30, 2012
The Joe Bonham Project is a cooperative venture of the Society of Illustrators and the International Society of War Artists. The exhibition features fifteen artists, ranging from seasoned combat artists and well known illustrators for major publications to college students. All have dedicated their skills to recording the faces and experiences of battle-wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The stark, intimate sketches have earned The Joe Bonham Project critical acclaim and recognition in The New York Times, the National Endowment for the Arts Magazine, CBS Evening News, the National Review, and the BBC. The Joe Bonham Project is named for the tragic hero of Dalton Trumbo's WWI novel Johnny Got His Gun. "My father would have been humbled and touched by what you and your fellow artists have done and are continuing to do, telling the stories of all the Joe Bonhams," says Trumbo's daughter, Mitzi Trumbo./p>
In the Sunday New York Times on May 25, 2012 Carol Kino quotes Brandon Fortune, curator of painting and sculpture at Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, on The Joe Bonham Project saying "[she] credits the group with 'creating a new form [of art] by bridging the world of combat illustration and fine art portraiture' in a way that might not have been possible in the past."
While I was viewing the gallery, the exhibit organizer Michael Fay came in with Peter Wood, one of the speakers from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Effects of the Civil War on American Art Symposium.
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