German Trench

(708)
1920
Pencil and charcoal on paper
8 x 4 3/4 in. (20.3 x 12.1 cm)
Inscribed, inscribed, numbered, signed, inscribed, dated on right:
"German / trench at / Romagne / San Quentin / 209 / E W
Dickinson / H.G. [Herbert Groesbeck, Jr.] / '20"
Photo: Anonymous (Copies of old images)

Notes

Drawn at American Cemetery at Romagne-sous-Faucon, France, March 28, near the grave of Herbert Groesbeck, Jr, by 6 pm he was "at Herbert's grave by moonlight," (journal). Herbert and ED were fellow art students and close friends and ED was best man at his wedding to Amy two weeks before H.G. was sent to France. He was killed in the last week of the war. ED and HG had planned to go to Paris together in 1914 and then after the war. In 1919 Herbert's family gave ED Herbert's army insurance money for his own trip to France, $700.

Provenance

Estate

Exhibition History

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