Volume 68, Number 1 (2015) Winter

Heavy Weather, Prismacolor drawing, 1950, by Herbert C. Hahn, part of the Naval War College Museum’s Fire and Ice: Combat Art from the Korean Warexhibit,on loan courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, in Washington, D.C. This exhibit (2 June–30 December 2014) showcases the work of Hahn and of Hugh Cabot, both U.S. Navy combat artists in the Korean War. The U.S. Navy Combat Art Program, which began in 1941, sent out such artists “to capture the experience of war on canvas . . . to bring to life the stark reality of life in a war zone.” Hahn, a photographer and Navy Reservist called to active duty in the Korean War, served on board the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV 21) until his spare-time drawings of the ship’s activities attracted notice and resulted in his reassignment as a combat artist.