Don Troiani (born 1949) is an American painter whose work focuses on his native country's military heritage, mostly from the American Civil War and American Revolution. His highly realist works are most well known in the form of marketed mass produced printed reproductions, illustrated books, and book compilations. He is also a militaria collector.
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Troiani was born in New York City and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and New York City's Art Students League between 1967 and 1971.
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. His work has also appeared on a U.S. postal card 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.
Troiani has an extensive collections of Civil War, War of 1812, Revolutionary War, and World War II 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, Delaware Historical Society, Connecticut Museum of History, Pamplin Park, The West Point Museum, Virginia Historical Society, and the National Park Service Visitors Center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Troiani has been a consultant on Civil War uniforms and equipage for the feature film [Cold Mountain,[1] Civil Journal, and the miniseries The American Revolution.
He has served on the advisory board to the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University, and The Civil War Trust.
Books by Don Troiani: