Curate Yourself - Victor A. Lundy

For this week's topic, since I haven't really read much these days, I thought I would introduce one of my favorite illustrators instead.

Victor A. Lundy was a student studying in architect in New York City before he served in the U.S. 26th Infantry Division during WWII. He was 21 at the time. He applied his drawing skills to what's around him, while he was training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; forced marches, men at rest; the PX and tents; aboard ship in the Atlantic crossing. He has done many vivid portraits of fellow soldiers and the front line danger. He captured the moments in army where we might not see on a photograph. The sketches cover from May to November 1944 when Lundy was wounded and some pages of the sketchbooks got lost.

After serving the army, he completed his degree in architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1954, Lundy opened an architectural firm in Sarasota, Florida.

I chose his sketches because I really liked the moment he captured, these are the moments we probably won’t be able to see in photographs, it also reminds of us how is it like during the war.

Here are some of the moments he drew from the war:

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