Monoplan M.S attaquant un LVG [Monoplane Morane-Saulnier (M.S.) attacking a Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG)], Maurice Busset

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Maurice Busset, Monoplan M.S attaquant un LVG [Monoplane Morane-Saulnier (M.S.) attacking a Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG)]
Maurice Busset, Monoplan M.S attaquant un LVG [Monoplane Morane-Saulnier (M.S.) attacking a Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG)]
Maurice Busset
Monoplan M.S attaquant un LVG [Monoplane Morane-Saulnier (M.S.) attacking a Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG)]
1920
Maurice Busset
1879–1936
Monoplan M.S attaquant un LVG [Monoplane Morane-Saulnier (M.S.) attacking a Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG)], 1920
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 248 x 348 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 330 x 478 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 13 0.9921 x 18 13/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2009.0124.11
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Spencer Museum of Art Highlights
Maurice Busset, who studied art in Paris, began military service as an aerial scout in 1914. After the War he produced several portfolios about aerial warfare. His introductory text to this portfolio states: “Between flights, in the cockpit of the twin motor. Under canvas hangars, winter evenings, under the glow of watchman’s lantern—these images were carved during the turbulent period of the Great War. A block of cherry or beech, a steel knife, were companions who never abandoned the author in those years when the future no longer existed for the soldier. Without any hope of future publication, he had to prove to himself, that despite the leather jacket of the aviator he was still an artist.” As fate would have it, Busset outlived his comrades and published this book of woodcuts-prints that celebrate flying machines as works of art in their own right.
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Maurice Busset, who studied art in Paris, began military service as an aerial scout in 1914. After the War he produced several portfolios about aerial warfare. His introductory text to this portfolio states: “Between flights, in the cockpit of the twin motor. Under canvas hangars, winter evenings, under the glow of watchman’s lantern—these images were carved during the turbulent period of the Great War. A block of cherry or beech, a steel knife, were companions who never abandoned the author in those years when the future no longer existed for the soldier. Without any hope of future publication, he had to prove to himself, that despite the leather jacket of the aviator he was still an artist.” As fate would have it, Busset outlived his comrades and published this book of woodcuts-prints that celebrate flying machines as works of art in their own right.
Exhibition Label: “Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts,” Mar-2010, Steve Goddard Maurice Busset, who studied art in Paris, began military service as an aerial scout in 1914. After the War he produced several portfolios about aerial warfare. His introductory text to this portfolio states: Between flights, in the cockpit of the twin motor. Under canvas hangars, winter evenings, under the glow of watchman’s lantern-these images were carved during the turbulent period of the Great War. A block of cherry or beech, a steel knife, were companions who never abandoned the author in those years when the future no longer existed for the soldier. Without any hope of future publication, he had to prove to himself, that despite the leather jacket of the aviator he was still an artist. As fate would have it, Busset outlived his comrades and published this book of woodcuts-prints that celebrate flying machines as works of art in their own right. See also the portfolio cover in the nearby case.

Exhibitions

Conversation XVIII: World War I
Stephen Goddard, curator
2014
Teaching Gallery: WWI
2010
Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts
Stephen Goddard, curator
2010

Citations

Lazzarino, Chris. "Into the Void: Spencer exhibition reveals artists’ reactions to World War I horrors." In Kansas Alumni Vol. 2 (2010):

Kanost, Elizabeth, ed. Spencer Museum of Art Annual Report, Fiscal Years 2014 & 2015. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2016.