“A roadside cemetery near Neuve Eglise”

George Edmund Butler, “A roadside cemetery near Neuve Eglise,” Watercolor, 229 mm X 568 mm, 1917

George Edmund Butler was a landscape artist. He was born January 15, 1972 and died August 9, 1936. Butler attended Wellington school of design 1890 and later and Lambeth School of Art in Paris, France. Butler was asked to capture the essence of war and did so by painting many of the cemeteries in which soldiers were buried. This piece expresses the tragedies of war and the many lives that it affects. I chose this piece as it gave a blunt reality of the results of war.