War
Starting in the spring of 1937, with a young driver who had been wounded on the front, he traversed the various fronts of the war, from Almeria up to the Pyrenees, drawing numerous sketches of the war. That fall, in the Mediterranean seaside home of his artist friend, Joachin Sunyer, who was with his family in France, he put 140 drawings into their difinitive form. These were first shown in December at the Hotel Ritz in Barcelona. And encouraged by his American friends, Jay Allen, Herbert Matthews, and Hemingway, the show was taken the following spring to New York's Museum of Modern Art. Hemingway wrote the catalog, and many reproductions of the drawing appeared in All the Brave, which had three prefaces by Hemingway, an introduction by Jay Allen, and a running commentary by Elliot Paul. |
Drawings of the War | All the Brave |
Sitges
Before drawings his drawings of the war he led men in combat: on the Alcazar of Toledo, the Somossiera Pass, the Guadarrama front and the streets of Madrid. |
Happier
times. Michael Allen (the son of Jay and Ruth Allen), Andres Segovia,
Tess Shirer (William's wife) and Quintanilla in Lloret del Mar, not
far from Barcelona and Sitges, in 1933. |
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