Bruce K. Lawes
(Canadian, b. 1962)

"Pickett's Charge, Guns of Thunder", 2016

oil on canvas backed by wood panel
signed lower right.
Framed.
22-3/8" x 33-1/4", framed 32-1/2" x 42-1/4"

Provenance: Coeur d'Alene, Reno, Nevada, July 23, 2016, lot 52.

Literature: Public Opinion (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania) July 5, 2014: 1-2, A4.

Notes: In 2013, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee commissioned Bruce Lawes to execute historically accurate scenes of the battles of Gettysburg for its 150th year commemoration. Pickett's Charge, the last battle of Gettysburg, was painted from copious studies and photographs of on-site re-enactments, that were fact-checked by historian J. David Petruzzi. This work, a vignette of the larger work, painted in 2014, "When Boys Become Men, Pickett's Charge" focuses on one young infantryman, who pauses from manning the cannon to reflect upon the purpose of the war: 'one nation indivisible' - symbolized by the American flag waving in the midday light.

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