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Coming Events
Current as of 1 October 2014
OCTOBER:
• Thursday, 10/2: New York, NY- Book Launch: “Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914- 1918. Accounts from the War Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical Staff.” By Ed and Libby Klekowski. 6:30 pm, Flanders House, The New York Times Building, 620 Eigth Avenue
• Saturday, 10/4: Essington, PA. WWI US Army Signal Corps Aviation Division Base Chandler Field. Event details found here:
• Saturday, 10/4-Sunday 10/5: Virginia Beach, VA: Military Aviation Museum Biplanes and Triplanes Airshow. Military Aviation Museum Biplanes and Triplanes Airshow: WWI Airplanes Fly, Re-Enactors and Entertainment, Hanger Dance Saturday Night. For tickets and information, call (757) 721-PROP or visit
• Sunday, 10/12 East Bridge Water, MA –Centenary Tribute to WWI with Music by Ben and Brad: ben@
• Tuesday, 10/14: Washington, DC- Guild of Professional Tour Guides Meeting. Commission Vice Chair Edwin Fountain to speak to guild members to provide some background information on World War I memorials in Washington and plans to redevelop Pershing Park.
NOVEMBER:
• Wednesday 11/5, Alexandria, VA: A lecture: "World War One: France and the War to End All Wars In Memory and Remembrance" presented by LTC(R) Thomas Christianson, Senior Historian Office of the Secretary of Defense-History. 6:30 PM Wine and Cheese, 7:00 PM lecture. Presented by the Alexandria-Caen Sister Cities Committee, $5 at the door. The Lyceum, 201 South Washington St.
US WWI ART EXHIBITS:
Current (in order of closing soonest)
Washington, DC
Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 702 8th St. NW (sponsored by Goethe Institute)
“Postcards from the Trenches: Germans and Americans Visualize the Great War
World War I”
August 19, 2014 – Sept. 27, 2014
(second venue: The Printing Museum, Houston, Oct. 23, 2014 – Feb. 14, 2015)
Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago
“Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years”
June 28, 2014 – Sept. 28, 2014
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo Museum of Art
“The Great War: Art on the Front Line”
July 25-Oct. 19, 2014
Raleigh, NC
Dorton Arena, North Carolina State Fairgrounds
“North Carolina in the Great War”
October 16 – 26, 2014
San Marino, CA
Huntington Library
“Your Country Calls! Posters of the First World War”
Aug. 2, 2014–Nov. 3, 2014
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
“Printmakers of World War I”
July 28, 2014 – Nov. 10, 2014
Lancaster, PA
Franklin & Marshall College
"Before Rosie the Riveter: Women and Work in WWI"
Sept. 3, 2014- Dec. 7, 2014
Newark, Delaware
University of Delaware’s Old College West Gallery
“Delaware Awake! World War I at Home and Abroad”
Sept. 3, 2014 - Dec. 7, 2014
South Bend, Indiana
South Bend Center for History
“World War I: The War to End All Wars”
Feb. 15, 2014 – Dec. 31, 2014
Boston, MA
Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street
“Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: Massachusetts Women in the First World War”
June 12, 2014 – January 2015
Boston, MA
Boston Athenaeum – 10 ½ Beacon Street
“Over Here: World War I Posters From Around the World”
September 10, 2014 - January 31, 2015
Also, at the Athenaeum: a series of lectures list:
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
“Over There! Posters from World War I”
July 26, 2014 – June 14, 2015
Upcoming
Los Angeles, CA
Getty Research Institute Galleries
“World War I: War of Images, Images of War”
Nov. 18, 2014–April 19, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
“World War I and American Art”
November 1916 – April 1917
(second venue: New York Historical Society, May – Sept. 2017)
(third venue: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, October 2017- January 2018)
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