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ORIGINALS
Own the ultimate centerpiece for any World War II collection — Larry Selman's original painting, "First Victory"!
Set on Guadalcanal in the desperate early months of the Pacific War, the painting captures the Battle of the Alligator Creek — known to the Marines as the Tenaru River — on August 21, 1942.
- In the darkness before dawn, Japanese troops of the elite Ichiki Regiment threw themselves against the lines of the 1st Marine Division. They met a wall of Marine fire. By sunrise, the attack was shattered — a stunning American victory that helped break the myth of Japanese invincibility on land.
Selman puts you in the middle of it: Marines crouched behind their defenses, Pvt. Robert Leckie at his machine gun, muzzle flashes tearing across the river. History, action, and atmosphere on a single canvas.
This isn't a print. It's the original painting — the one canvas from which every edition of "First Victory" was created.
For the collector who already owns signed prints and memorabilia, an original is something else entirely: a true one-of-one piece of World War II art. Every other Selman painting we've offered has sold — and once this one does too, that's it — it's history.
Make "First Victory" the centerpiece of your collection today!
ARTIST: Larry Selman
MEDIUM: Oil on canvasPAINTING SIZE: 48" wide x 24" tallSHIPPING: Ships in an AirFloat StrongBox with insurancePAYMENT PLAN: $833 a month for 12 months, plus S/H
BUY NOW: $9,995 plus S/H