| Head Quarters United States Marine Corps |
Date: 11/27/12
Re: Art Selections for the Office
As requested I have selected six new paintings, three Impressionist and three Post-Impressionist works. The works are to be placed along the large wall in the main lobby of the building in the order listed below. The order starts with two works depicting everyday life while in theatre, followed by two emotionally charged works that have become iconic for our beloved Marine Corps, completed by two works of everyday day life in theatre. The idea is for the viewer to scan the works left to right; starting with an introduction to our mission: combat readiness; moving to two historical benchmarks, one from our past and one from the present; completed by two works depicting Marines in the mission.

TITLE | Touchdown | ARTIST | Howard A. Terpning | DESCRIPTION | Marines exiting a helicopter in Vietnam. The Marines are in dark hues of earth greens, with dark shading and shadowing. The Marines are being dropped in a background of a golden field that undetectably fades into the golden/orange background. | STYLE | Post-Impressionism: Focusing more on the subject matter of the Marines, then the landscape. Captured as hastily as the Marines exit with rapid strokes, dark pigments, laid in rugged, thick paint. Solid patches of color make the background while the subject matter is more clearly defined. (Sayre, pp. 1092-1093) | HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE | This work is important because the Vietnam War came to be called a helicopter war because of reliance on rotary-wing aircrafts. Aircrafts were used for troop transport, replenishing supplies, medical evacuation, reconnaissance, and artillery support. (Frank, 1986) |

TITLE | Recon Team | ARTIST | Colonel H. Avery Chenoweth, USMCR | DESCRIPTION | This painting has the appearance of a rushed sketch, capturing a recon