The Nobel Train of Artillery
By Tom Lovell
Oil on Artist Board 7”x7.5”
On Loan from the Leckie Family
Some time during WWII, my father, John J. Leckie, Sr, sales promotion manager for Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., authorized the artist Tom Lovell to do a painting for General Knox’s “noble train of artillery” as it was being moved from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston, where, emplaced above the town, it forced the British to evacuate. My father had a great interest in Ticonderoga, if only because he had
named one of Dixon’s many pencils after it. Lovell’s painting was scheduled to appear in Liberty Magazine.
When he had finished the cartoon, or model from which he would make the finished painting, he showed it to my father, who was so impressed he asked Lovell for it. This is that cartoon. The finished painting now hangs in the museum at Fort Ticonderoga.
– Robert Leckie, 1963, Noted American Military Historian
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