Combat artist

DEFINITION

An artist officially assigned by publications or government entities to record battles and military life during war time, it includes Edward Lamson Henry, David Gilmour Blythe, and Winslow Homer in the Civil War; Frederic Remington in the Spanish American War; George Bellows in World War I; Gilbert Bundy, Tom Lovell, and Mead Schaeffer in World War II. Source: AskART biographies