Don Troiani is an American

United States

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 painter whose work focuses on his native country's military

Military

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 heritage, mostly from the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 and American Revolution

American Revolution

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. His highly realist works are most well known in the form of marketed mass produced

Mass production

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 printed

Printing

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 reproductions, illustrated books, and book compilations. He is also a militaria

Militaria

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 collector.

Biography

Troiani was born in New York City

New York City

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 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and New York City's Art Students League between 1967 and 1971.

Work

Don Troiani's paintings are realistic and academic in style. He uses posed models with clothing and equipment from a collections of uniforms, equipage, insignia and weapons. He also studies battlefields and structures depicted in his paintings firsthand.

In 1995 he designed the three Civil War battlefield commemorative coins for the United States Mint

United States Mint

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. His work has also appeared on a U.S. postal card

Postal card

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 commemorating the anniversary of the U.S. National Guard. Troiani is also a recipient of the Meritorious Service Award of the United States National Guard.

Other activities

Troiani has an extensive collections of Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

, War of 1812

War of 1812

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, Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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, and World War II

World War II

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 uniforms, equipage, insignia and weapons. He also consults and appraises for museum and collectors on the subject of military artifacts. Items from his militaria collection have appeared in the Time-Life "Echoes Of Glory" series on the Civil War. Other artifacts of his have been loaned for exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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, Delaware Historical Society

Delaware Historical Society

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, Connecticut Museum of History, Pamplin Park, The West Point Museum, Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society

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, and the National Park Service Visitors Center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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Troiani has been a consultant on Civil War uniforms and equipage for the feature film [Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain (film)

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, Civil Journal, and the miniseries The American Revolution

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He has served on the advisory board to the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection

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 at Brown University, and The Civil War Trust.

Collections

• The Booth Museum of Western Art, Cartersville, Ga.
• Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology
• Gettysburg National Historical Park
• U.S. Army War College
  U.S. Army War College
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• U.S. Marine Corps Museum
• National Civil War Museum
  National Civil War Museum
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• Parks of Canada
• West Point Museum
• The Pentagon
• North Carolina Museum of History
• Pamplin Park
• Heritage Plantation, Sandwich , MA.
• National Civil War Museum
  National Civil War Museum
  The National Civil War Museum, located at One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a permanent, nonprofit educational institution created to promote the preservation of material culture and sources of information that are directly relevant to the American Civil War of...
  
  , Harrisburg, PA

Publications and Media

• "New York Times"
• "Washington Times"
• "Washington Post"
• "American Heritage"
• "American Rifleman"
• "Boston Globe"
• "America's Civil War"
• "Southwest Art"
• "Connecticut Magazine"
• "Smithsonian"
• "Antiques and Arts Weekly"
• "America's Civil War"
• "Military History"
• "Military Heritage"
• "Man at Arms"
• "Numismatist"
• "The Quarterly Journal of Military History"
• "International Churchill Society"
• "Confederate Veteran"
• "Art Business News"
• " North and South Magazine"
• "The Times Picayune"
• "Antiques Road Show Insider"
• "Equine Images" Spring 1992
• "Hartford Courant"

Books

Books by Don Troiani:

• Don Troiani's Civil War
• Soldiers in America 1754-1865
• Military Buttons of the American Revolution
• Soldiers of the American Revolution
• Don Troiani's Regiments and Uniforms of the Civil War
• Don Troiani's American Battles