The Navy Combat Art Program was founded in 1941 because of the persistence of Griffith Baily Coale, a well-known muralist. Believing that war imminent, Coale convinced top Navy commanders to send ...
“Combat art provides an immediacy to the viewer," said Tiffany Reed Silverman, the director of fine arts at The Citadel. "You get to see what it looked like through the eyes of someone who was ...