Corporal Edwin S. Fulgo - Battle of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, South Pacific, 1944 14" x 23.5"

Corporal Edwin S. Fulgo (1920-1944)
Battle of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, South Pacific, 1944, 1944

Oil on canvas on board
Board: 14” x 23.5”
Frame: 14.75” x 23.5”

Signed and Dated Lower Right: Cpl. E.S. Fulgo / Feb. 18 1944

This view was painted by Edwin S. Fulgo (1920-1944) of Rensselaer, NY, a corporal in the Fourth Tank Battalion in the Fourth Marine Division. It was painted 15 days after the American victory over the Japanese in the Battle of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. It apparently shows a tank crew's sleeping quarters on the occupied atoll: a tent pitched off the rear of a tank, fortified by logs and sandbags.

Corporal Fulgo was killed in action four months after at the Battle of Saipan.

Provenance:
Swann Gaalleries, Printed & Manuscipt Americana, September 29, 2022, Lot 320
Private Collection, Utah