TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newbert, Alan
AU  - Steele, Benjamin C.
AU  - Steele, Shirley
AU  - Todd, James
TI  - Benjamin Charles Steele : : prisoner of war : an exhibition of eighty drawings and three paintings... / 
SN  - (softbound)
AV  - N 8260 B465 1986 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Billings, Mont. : 
PB  - Dept. of Art, Eastern Montana College
KW  - Steele, Benjamin Charles
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, American
KW  - art works (sketches)
KW  - atrocities against POWs
KW  - Bataan
KW  - Clark Field bombing
KW  - Death March
KW  - Philippine defense campaign
KW  - POW life
KW  - Tayabas work detail
N1  - Cover title: Ben Steele, prisoner of war.  "An exhibition of eighty drawings and three paintings in the Northwest Gallery of Art at Eastern Montana College ..."
N2  - An exhibition catalog which features the drawings of a Montana cowboy who joined the Air Corps to escape the hardship of the Great Depression. He wound up in the Philippines, and was at Clark Field when the war started. He fought in Bataan and became a prisoner of war when Gen. King surrendered.

Although without formal training in drawing, Steele documented what he saw in Clark Field, the Death March, prisoner of war camp life, the Tayabas work detail, and prisoner conditions in Japan. After the war, he painted scenes from memory. Through these drawing and paintings, Steele has left graphic and powerful images which show bravery in action, man’s inhumanity to man, and also man’s descent into primitive life while keeping hope alive.

After the war, he studied art formally and taught at Eastern Montana College, where he donated his works of art. This catalog publishes thirty-one of Steele’s eighty drawings and three paintings. A chronology of Steele’s life and complete listing of his works are appended. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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