Gassed (painting)

This article is about the 1919 painting by John Singer Sargent. For the 1940 painting by Edward Hopper, see Gas (painting).

Gassed
Painting of a line of soldiers walking apparently blind
ArtistJohn Singer Sargent
Yearc. March 1919
TypeOil on canvas
Dimensions231 cm × 611 cm (91 in × 240½ in)
LocationImperial War Museum, London

Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent. It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station. Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front[1] in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras, and then with the American Expeditionary Forces near Ypres. The painting was finished in March 1919 and voted picture of the year by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1919. It is now held by the Imperial War Museum. It visited the US in 1999 for a series of retrospective exhibitions, and then from 2016 to 2018 for exhibitions commemorating the centenary of the First World War.

  1. ^ Addley, Esther (12 October 2023). "'It glows': restorer removes queasy look from first world war painting Gassed". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2023.