"Don Troiani's ACW books" Topic

has any one read these books, or own copies, and if so, are they worth buying?

I have the series of 5 and they are very worthwhile acquisitions. I would definitely rcommend them.

I have the big one that is, I believe, all of them combined. A good read and extremely useful in painting.

Worth it, great painting insperation.

I just received Don Troiani's Civil War by Don Troiani and Brian C. Pohanka for my birthday. I couldn't have picked a more inspirational ACW painter's book myself. I think it's fantastic.

I buy every one I can get my hands on -- and I'm not a real big ACW fan. Some of Don's Books have AWI and figures from other wars. Great stuff.

mjc

While I've heard of Troiani.. I've not seen the books..

Can a get a description..?

Why do I want them..? :-)

these books are great !

I have them all as well. Great reference. I really like his AWI book as well.

terrain sherlock – He paints ACW and AWI uniform plates and vignettes. Its all amazing stuff.

Superb books and worth every penny I paid for them. I would love to own one of his original paintings, but I couldn't stretch the budget that far.

If you haven't seen his work before I would suggest that you have a look at some of these.

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I couldn't do them justice trying to explain why you need them with words.

I have some of his prints…

I agree with what everyone says above – worth having for sure…

James

Terain Sherlock,
Don Troiani is considered the premiere artist of civil war paintings. Not only is his work the absolute best in style and composition, but in Historical Authenticity. He has one of the most impressive collections of original uniforms and equipment which he bases his paintings from and includes pictures of them also in his book.

Yes, they're fantastic.

I have all his books and they are fantastic. I would highly recommend getting them.

Wow – thanks guys. With so much positive recommendations for these books, i will have to get them :-)

Now.. which one to start off with?

If starting with only one, start with the first one, Don Troiani's Civil War, by Troiani an Pohanka:

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It will lead yo to the others--all beautiful.

Troiani's a talented artist -- great books for uniform info and the new ones are reasonably priced -- $17 USD for the specific volumes (25-38 color paintings each) and $50 USD for
3-37450 Troiani, Don illustrator text by Brian C. Pohanka DON TROIANI'S CIVIL WAR The first ever collection of Don Troiani's art,over 100 exquiste full color illust, with experttext by Pohanka, a must for any Civil War Fan.1 vol, 190 pgs 1995 HARRISBURG, STACKPOLE BKS

See OMM for all his books.

Dennis from OMM
onmilitarymatters.com

Worth it worth it worth it!

Troiani's paintings almost come across like journalistic snapshots. The man's personal collection of Civil War uniforms and artifacts is among the finest in the world. He uses so many of these items as basis for what he paints(and literally copies original soldier's items onto canvas), he almost achieves what amounts to a "photographic snapshot" of a battle in oil paint. What he does is entirely unique in the world of military art. Nobody else comes close. He does not fool around with this subject matter!

This man will spend three years researching a painting before he ever puts a brush to canvas. He gets the weather down, the humidity level down, the vegetation down, the lighting for the time of day down, and of course the uniforms pinned down, everything is researched so that by the time he actually paints a battle scene, he's eerily almost doing time travel through his art!

There is no better resource for miniatures painters or reenactors or living historians.

I personally recommend "Soldiers in America" and "Don Troiani's Civil War". These two volumes offer up the widest variety of his work and the most consolidated collections of his battle scenes. Soldiers in America is wonderful for studies of individual soldiers, both from the Civil and the American Revolution, as well as a few studies of British soldiers from the 1750's and 1760's.

Mike