Smithsonian kicks off Marine aviation centennial exhibit

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Painting by Howard Chandler Christy

The Smithsonian launched a year-long celebration of the Marine Corps’ aviation centennial Jan. 11 with an exhibit entitled “Fly Marines!”

The exhibit, created in conjunction with the National Museum of the Marine Corps, will draw on the Corps’ coffers of more than 5,500 works by 350 artists. The works were generated by the Marine Corps Arts Program, founded in 1942 to document the lives of Marines in combat and at home.

The exhibit will run through Jan. 6, 2013.

 

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