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In 1917, while still in art school, Edward Shenton joined Company B, 103rd Engineers of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He stocked up on art materials, including many canvas-bound sketchbooks and a watercolor set, and went off to train and fight. Corporal Shenton was a combat engineer first and an artist second. He could dig a trench, build a bridge or kill a man with a bayonet, and that was his job, but in his time-off he drew the scenes around him. Whether it was an American ambulance, the cootie-filled shed where he was billeted, a destroyed town or the bodies of dead soldiers, they all made their way into his sketchbooks. Company B held off the German advance across the Marne in July, built bridges across the Vesle under German fire in August and put a road across the Argonne no man’s land in the early hours of September 26th. All these exploits were illustrated by his pencil drawings.
When Ed returned home, no one wanted to hear about the war, much less see images of the horrors of battle. He went back to art school and his sketches were put away and forgotten. He had a brilliant career as an illustrator. His drawings graced the cover of Scribner’s Magazine for ten years and embellished books by, among others, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolf.
Edward Shenton had a long career as an outstanding illustrator, author, and teacher and, after a very full life, died at the age of eighty-two. Nine decades after they were put away, his son came across Ed’s sketchbooks and he and I decided that they, along with his father’s wartime story, had to be shared with the world. The result is The Lost Sketchbooks: A Young Artist in The Great War.
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“The Lost Sketchbooks is a powerful account of one soldier's story in World War I. ...this book puts you in the middle of the action of the soldiers of the 28th Division, AEF.” MAJOR GENERAL WESLEY CLARK (Retired), former Commanding General of the 28th Infantry Division.
“The Lost Sketchbooks: A Young Artist in the Great War is a genuine gift to Americans of today as they strive to connect with and understand the meaning and impact of America’s experience in World War I.” PAUL CORA, Chairman East Coast Branch Western Front Association
When I look at Ed Shenton’s wonderful drawings from nearly a century in the attic, I feel like I am walking alongside as he marches off to fight World War I.RICK BEYER, Ghost Army Author/Filmmaker
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- PublisherKomatik Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0982821956
- ISBN 13 9780982821954
- BindingPerfect Paperback
- Edition number1
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edward Shenton (illustrator). 1st Edition. Condition: GOOD. Apparent shelf wear. Horizontal scratch on back cover. See images provided. Tight binding. All pages clean without any notations, markings or folds. Synopsis: The Lost Sketchbooks, A Young Artist in The Great War is the story of Corporal Edward Shenton of Company B, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division and his service in World War One. Ed never kept a diary and none of his letters home have been found but he did keep sketchbooks in which he recorded his wartime experiences in drawings rather than in words. When he returned home, he put his sketchbooks away and continued his art career, which spanned more than fifty years. Now nine decades later Ed Shenton's drawings have been discovered and published. The one hundred and fifty sketches tell the story of his training in Maryland and Georgia, his combat in Second Battle of the Marne and in the Meuse-Argonne and his time in France after the Armistice. The Lost Sketchbooks is an intimate tale of a young man s two-year odyssey told by his drawings. The images are very immediate and personal and make one feel as if they are walking beside him in The Great War. About the Author: Edward Shenton returned to art school at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and went on to have a fifty-year-long career as a professional artist during which he did covers for first editions of Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald. He was one of the major book and magazine illustrators of the 1930 s and 1940 s. His rare sketches were done with exceptional skill and an immediacy seldom seen in wartime artwork. One hundred and fifty of his drawings are included in The Lost Sketchbooks. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Seller Inventory # 220813
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