Don Troiani Artwork

[James N.]

YW, Troiani has really branched into the Revolutionary period, he's got a lot of nice prints up at his website http://www.historicalartprints.com/viewgal.php?gal_id=7

I think that the AWI is really Troiani's first love

Though he certainly has produced a lot more recently along those lines, it began with this simple ( and obvious ) subject General George Washington back in 1987. Back then it was "unpopular" and remained available long after its Civil War predecessors had sold out. I gave in and bought #139/950 in spring of 1991 once I heard I had been hired to work on Last of the Mohicans and had it delivered to the production office in Asheville, N.C.; at the time, it was the only original Troiani I could afford because it hadn't sold out and become the property of the middlemen print dealers yet : I paid the princely sum of $125 for it from the publisher. I had it matted and all through the production for three months it hung in my motel room. Once I got it home I had it framed and it now hangs in my "Early American" dining room along with other Washington prints by Currier and others. Unfortunately the poor sales of this print discouraged Troiani a long time from producing other Revolutionary subjects.

 

[The Dude]

Thanks for posting Dude! I have seen that one before but could never manage to find one online in a good resolution. I posted this thread a while back on the black slaves in the 4th TN Cavalry fighting at Chickamauga.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/confederate-colored-servants-fight-at-chickamauga.81198/

This one I have is the actual commission piece that he did for William Gladstone who was maybe the top African-American military historian around. You can find this piece at his site for sale under his Soldier Study section. They are fairley inexpensive and even tho not numbered he does sign them. I don't think a lot of people realize that most of his single studies can be purchased this way.

 

[The Dude]

This is another interesting new watercolor Don has done for his upcoming book, it is 11th Mississippi, Van Dorn's Reserve, 1861. Another example of the different uniforms worn early in the war. Gotta love the bowtie

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

View attachment 29182 This is another interesting new watercolor Don has done for his upcoming book, it is 11th Mississippi, Van Dorn's Reserve, 1861. Another example of the different uniforms worn early in the war. Gotta love the bowtie

I've never seen this one either, thanks.

 

[The Dude]

I've never seen this one either, thanks.

I would think this one would be very much to your liking being the 11th Mississippi, have you ever seen or heard of these red uniforms?

 

[RebelCause]

View attachment 29182 This is another interesting new watercolor Don has done for his upcoming book, it is 11th Mississippi, Van Dorn's Reserve, 1861. Another example of the different uniforms worn early in the war. Gotta love the bowtie

He'd make an easy target with such a bright uniform.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I would think this one would be very much to your liking being the 11th Mississippi, have you ever seen or heard of these red uniforms?

Nope,

This is news to me.

Red trim on gray was originally prescribed for infantry according the 1861 Mississippi Uniform Regulations.

However, such red uniform may have been based upon our state's 1847 Mexican War Regiment . . . the Mississippi Rifles ( a volunteer unit commanded by Jeff Davis). They wore red frock coats. Nice painting by Kenneth Riley depicting their charge at Buena Vista here.

But I was not aware of a completely red uniform for any unit including local militias during the early years.

 

[AUG]

I wasn't sure but I had thought that the 2nd MS was also issued red uniforms early in the war, or at least a company. I assume it was only Co. I "Van Dorn Reserves" who were issued the red uniforms in the 11th MS. http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/11th_MS_Inf.htm

 

[AUG]

Here's one of Co. G, 6th Texas Infantry, 1861-62. The uniform to their left is their original company uniform, produced by the ladies of Travis County. To the right are the uniforms they later received at Camp McCulloch, manufactured at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. The 6th Texas would later become part of Granbury's Texas Brigade in Cleburne's Division.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

I do recall that the 2nd Mississippi wore red battle shirts at First Manassas. I believe a Midwestern Federal unit was also wearing almost identical red fatigue shirts. Another example of confusion on the field that day.

 

[juventuz]

Though he certainly has produced a lot more recently along those lines, it began with this simple ( and obvious ) subject General George Washington back in 1987. Back then it was "unpopular" and remained available long after its Civil War predecessors had sold out. I gave in and bought #139/950 in spring of 1991 once I heard I had been hired to work on Last of the Mohicans and had it delivered to the production office in Asheville, N.C.; at the time, it was the only original Troiani I could afford because it hadn't sold out and become the property of the middlemen print dealers yet : I paid the princely sum of $125 for it from the publisher. I had it matted and all through the production for three months it hung in my motel room. Once I got it home I had it framed and it now hangs in my "Early American" dining room along with other Washington prints by Currier and others. Unfortunately the poor sales of this print discouraged Troiani a long time from producing other Revolutionary subjects.

What did you do on LotM? Btw, it's one of my all-time favorite movies. I know a couple people that worked on make up during the movie.

 

[James N.]

What did you do on LotM? Btw, it's one of my all-time favorite movies. I know a couple people that worked on make up during the movie.

Same thing as in Glory - What's been called "reenactor wrangler" ( help organizing the mass of extras and reenactors into units and serving onscreen as officer or NCO ). So as to not stray too far from the subject of the thread, here's a Troiani print showing a similar subject, the 1777 Battle of Oriskany; and the only scene in Mohicans I actually can be seen clearly in ( though I'm in plenty more in backgrounds ):

 

[CSA Today]

"Steady on the Colors"

 

[AUG]

"Cemetery Hill" General Hancock rallies retreating Union troops on Cemetery Hill, July 1st , 1863 at Gettysburg. Looks like Abner Doubleday on Hancock's right and Oliver O. Howard on his left.

The 51st Pennsylvania Regiment storms across Burnside's Bridge at the Battle of Antietam, Md.

Captain Charles Gould of the 5th Vermont Volunteers wins a Medal of Honor by being the first man to top the Confederate earthworks at Petersburg on the morning of April 2, 1865. He was bayoneted at least twice and cut with a sword but lived through the ordeal.

 

[Billy Yank]

I've been putting-away my savings to one day afford one of Troiani's works. His stuff is magnificent.

 

[AUG]

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"Cleburne at Chickamauga" Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne and his staff help distribute ammunition to the men of the 2nd Tennessee Infantry during the Battle of Chickamauga.

 

[Nathanb1]

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Same thing as in Glory - What's been called "reenactor wrangler" ( help organizing the mass of extras and reenactors into units and serving onscreen as officer or NCO ). So as to not stray too far from the subject of the thread, here's a Troiani print showing a similar subject, the 1777 Battle of Oriskany; and the only scene in Mohicans I actually can be seen clearly in ( though I'm in plenty more in backgrounds ):

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I like the eating scene.

 

[The Dude]

This is another one you might not have seen. Union Army Chaplain

 

[The Dude]

Kind of been holding this back for a few weeks, but here is DonTroiani's newest watercolor.
Fremont's Body Guard, Zagonyi's Battalion 1861

 

[juventuz]

Are you affiliated at all with Don? Just a fan?