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Born in Belgium in 1903, Georges Schreiber studied painting at some of the best schools in Europe before coming to the United States in 1928. He soon became an illustrator for most of New York’s daily papers before moving around the country and sketching life as he saw it.

By 1941, Schreiber had been commissioned by the US Army and Navy to do war work. As such he did War Bonds posters, military images and the like for four years solid. These enduring images are well-loved if not well-known. He is also one of the most celebrated realism artists of the 1930s and 40s.

Some of his best work in the genre of military art came from a tour he did of the USS Dorado during the sub’s shakedown cruise. These images include Stand By to Fire, Conning Tower, and Clear for Action.

Schreiber died in 1977 and his works are on display not only in the US Army’s collection but also at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of the City of New York, Library of Congress, White House Library, Toledo Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Bibliothéque Nationale, and the Museum of Tel Aviv.

Flight’s End

-His parachute swung comfortably over his shoulder, a Navy pilot returns to squadron headquarters to check in after a flight at Pensacola, Florida. Behind him, a beaching crew hoists a Vought-Sikorsky observation-scout onto the concrete hangar ramp. This operation is the same as that followed at sea, where scouting planes are hoisted back aboard after being catapulted from the deck of cruiser or battleship– by Georges Schreiber