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| Sunsette and Bella |
| Kristopher J. Battles, USMCR |
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Accession Number: 2019.3.1
Original work: Oil on Canvas
Original size:
Corporal Sunsette Winsler and her military working dog Bella are
en route to the Middle East on board the USS Bataan in 2016. She and her four-year-old Belgian Malinois are taking a break in the well deck of the amphibious assault ship, lying on the vessel’s large tie-up lines.
Kris Battles, a landscape and portrait artist, enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 1986 and served for 10 years, receiving his BFA from Northeast Missouri State University in 1991. The Marine Corps recalled him to serve as a combat artist around the globe in 2006. Sergeant Battles deployed twice to Iraq, including service with VMM-263 to document the first deployment of Ospreys in combat. One of Battles’ assignments was in Haiti to witness humanitarian assistance provided by Marines to survivors of the 2010 earthquakes. Staff Sergeant Battles left the Marine Corps in 2014, contributed to the Navy’s art program, and is now the artist-in-residence at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He earned his MFA from the University of Hartford in 2014.
Reproduction Size:
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