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August 26, 2005
Just spotted this link over at Boing Boing to Military paintings made at Bikini Atoll during the A Bomb testing in 1946. Ther best of which are by Charles Bittinger.
Bittinger, a noted military artist, was a camouflage artist in World Wars I and II and was an artist for the National Geographic Expedition and U.S. Eclipse Expedition to Canton Island in 1937. He was the official artist for Operations Crossword and in this capacity, painted the atomic explosion of 1946.
Bittinger lived in New York from 1907-1914, Massachusetts from 1915 to 1929, and Washington DC from 1929 to 1970. He studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Sorbonne, and the Academy Delecluse, and with Jean Paul Laurens and Jean Leon Gerome. In New York, he studied at the Art Students League.
Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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