This year marks the centennial of the Great War and museums around the globe have been in a wartime fervor setting up exhibitions to commemorate the conflict.
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY • to September 21 • moma.org
The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy is comprised of 50 movie screenings emphasizing the power of film in keeping the memory of an historical event alive. Selections represent the viewpoints of all the nations who fought in the war and range from contemporary films, including Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, to period pictures starring Hollywood legends such as Greta Garbo and Gary Cooper.
Screenshot from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse directed by Rex Ingram (1892-1950), 1921.
Victory is a Question of Stamina: Posters from the First World War • William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT • to October 12 • thebenton.org
Victory is a Question of Stamina by Harvey Dunn (1884-1952), 1917; color lithograph. The William Benton Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Elson.
The exhibition takes its title from the slogan used by the U. S. Food Administration during World War I in support of food rationing. The show aims to celebrate the essential role women played in the rationing movement by displaying the propaganda that enlisted them in the cause.
The Great War: Art on the Front Line • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH • to October 19 • toledomuseum.org
The Parents from the War (Krieg) series by Käthe Kollwitz (1876-1945), 1922-1923; woodcut. Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.
The horrors of World War I spread much farther than the battlefield. Gory scenes abounded in the era’s paintings, prints, and sculpture, embodying their makers’ response to trauma experienced in the military and at home, where injured soldiers returning from the front were a vivid reminder of life in the 
trenches. The show is accompanied by a free digital exhibition catalogue.
Sketch for The City by Fernand Léger (1881-1955), 1919. Oil on canvas; height 33 ½, width 29, depth 2 inches. Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.
Your Country Calls! Posters of the First World War • Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA • to November 4 • huntington.org
The posters that swept men and women into action during World War I are the focus of this exhibition. With 55 brightly colored prints, the show delivers viewers to a time of crisis, imploring them to donate, enlist, and volunteer.
Treat ’em Rough / Join the Tanks / United States Tank Corps. by August William Hutaf (1879-1942), 1918. Color lithograph, 40 by 28 inches. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
The Great War: Printmakers of World War I • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA • to November 9 • vmfa.museum
Zero. A Sixty-Five Pounder Opening Fire by James McBey (1883-1959), 1920; drypoint. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, promised Gift of Frank Raysor.
The 28 etchings, engravings, lithographs, and drypoints on display brilliantly evoke the drama of the period using only line and light. Represented in the eclectic mix are scenes of combat in France and the Near East, soldiers marching on foot and riding on camels, and ravaged landscapes of the warring countries.
The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON • to November 16 • gallery.ca
The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography explores the many facets of patriotism that photography embodied during the war. The medium became a tool with which to rally public support, spy on the enemy, and capture the image–forever stilled in time–of those whose lives were at risk.
29th Infantry Battalion advancing over “No man’s Land” through the German Barbed Wire and Heavy Fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, William Ivor Castle (1877-1947), 1917, printed 2014. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I • University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL • October 14 to January 2, 2015 • news.lib.uchicago.edu
With more than 100 illustrated books, magazines, and print portfolios, encompassing fashion, humor, and even children’s literature, En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I sets out to provide a deeper understanding of how the war affected France. An online version of the show will be available.
Sur mer. La manière française. Paris: Librairie Lutetia by Robert Bonfils (1886-1972), 1916. On loan from a private collection.
Greenwich Faces the Great War • Greenwich Historical Society, Greenwich, CT • October 1 to March 22, 2015 • greenwichhistory.org
Photograph of the Greenwich Avenue Parade of the Home Guard. Greenwich Historical Society.
Greenwich Faces the Great War chronicles life in the Connecticut town and beyond as America entered World War I. For the first time touch-screen technology will be introduced in the society’s galleries, increasing the number of documents and memorabilia available to visitors.
Over There! Posters from World War I • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA • to June 15, 2015 • mfa.org
Wake Up, America! / Civilization Calls Every Man Woman and Child! by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), 1917; color lithograph. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of John T. Spaulding.
Over There! Posters from World War I is the first exhibition featuring the MFA’s newly acquired I Want You for U. S. Army poster by James Montgomery Flagg from 1917. The American icon, with his white wisp of a beard, 
star-spangled suit and hat, and most importantly, that pointing finger, confronts visitors alongside more than 50 posters from both the United States and Europe calling for involvement in the war effort.
I Want You for U. S. Army by James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), 1917; color lithograph. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Henry S. Hacker exchange.
Rose Birnbaum is an editorial intern for The Magazine ANTIQUES and MODERN Magazine.
