In June 1966, the Army Vietnam Combat Artists Program was established as part of the United States Army Art Program, utilizing teams of soldier-artists to make pictorial records of U.S. Army activitie
Roger Blum, Vietnam Combat Artist Team I, discusses his painting "Attack at Twilight," completed with acrylic. The painting was inspired by Blum's first view of a burning "hooch," or hut, and he used dramatic lighting to emphasize the emotion of the painting.
NURSING by Robert C. Knight, CAT I, 1966, Courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Army
THE LOST OF WAR by Roger A. Blum, CAT I, 1966
Paul Rickert was an American artist, known for his watercolor paintings of urban and industrial scenes.
Sketch of a Combat Artist at Work by Paul Rickert, Vietnam Combat Artists Program, CAT I, 1966. Courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Army.