The Brown Club of Houston invites you to learn about the vast military collection of the John Hay Special Collections Library with Andrew Woelflein '86.
Andrew Woelflein has been a Trustee of Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University since 1996 and Presiding Trustee since 2013. One of the world’s foremost collections of military iconography, the Collection uses its vast material of over 28,000 military art images to promote knowledge of military history through lectures, museum exhibitions, supporting research, and publications. Mr. Woelflein has lectured widely on the collection and is the author of Herbert Knotel’s German Armies in Color (2007,) featuring depictions of German army units from the 17th to 20th century.
Andrew will provide an overview of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection housed in the John Hay Special Collections Library at Brown University. Mrs. Brown’s private collection of 6,000 toy soldiers, 20,000+ military history books and over 28,000 military art images was donated to Brown University in 1982.
While the original focus of the collection was the history and illustration of world military and naval uniforms from the 16th century to the present, the collection also now contains a vast amount of material on military and naval history, military and naval arts, tactics and drill, wars, campaigns, biography, portraiture, and caricature. There are also sections on early military science, early travel, weaponry, heraldry, orders, medals and decorations, flags, general costume, military artists, and royalty and ceremony. It contains manuscripts, original photographs, posters, illustrated sheet music, postcards and cigarette cards, paper soldiers, and other graphic documentation, and is used by publishers, scholars, museums, television and filmmakers. The collection itself has been the subject of various articles and books. Today it is concerned with all aspects of military and naval history, particularly covering the period circa 1500-1945.
We will take a deeper dive into two of the Collection’s military artists and professional soldiers from the 18th and 19th century to showcase their art and comments on their military campaigns. Below are illustrations from Faber de Faur and Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Verger.
Join us and learn about these artists and the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
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