Study for Battalion Aid Station

Original pencil sketch signed by artist; medic assisting wounded soldier on stretcher. Original pencil sketch signed by artist; medic assisting wounded soldier on stretcher. Handwritten note by artist, on separate piece of yellow notepaper, reads: "Before leaving for the Pacific I was commissioned and sent to Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, a noted U.S. hospital of tropical medicine, to gain some knowledge of combat equipment and treatment. This was one of the studies made before completing the painting which now hangs in the chief surgeon's office." Benney was contracted by Abbott Pharmaceuticals of Chicago to do free-lance work depicting scenes of the medical services in war. He saw action in the Northern Marianas and Saipan.