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Herbert Paus Goes Behind the Scenes
With his heralded attention to detail, illustrator Herbert Paus captures his officers as if frozen in a moment behind the lines of battle. Shown variously resting, armed, peering at the viewer, talking on a telephone, and sitting before a telegraph machine -- his soldiers project both ease and military readiness. Paus trained as an artist in St. Paul, Minnesota, and while still a teenager moved to New York City in 1899 to further his artistic training. Already renowned by the time the U.S. entered World War I, Paus joined Charles Dana Gibson's Division of Pictorial Publicity. |