Traffic to Mont St. Père

George Matthews Harding's 1918 drawing depicts a military convoy moving toward Mont St. Père during World War I. The composition captures German prisoners of war, French soldiers, and American troops with fixed bayonets, interspersed with horses, a wagon, and a truck navigating the crowded scene. Harding uses graphite, charcoal, crayon, and white gouache to render the dense arrangement of figures and equipment, with buildings visible in the distant landscape. The work documents the logistical realities of troop movement and prisoner transport during the final year of the war, rendered with Harding's characteristic attention to military detail and human activity.