Don Troiani (born 1949) is an American painter whose work focuses on his native country's military heritage, mostly from the American Revolution, War of 1812 and American Civil War. His highly realistic and historically accurate oil and watercolor works are most well known in the form of marketed mass-producedprinted limited-edition reproductions, illustrated books, book compilations, museum and government collections. He is also a militaria collector.
Don Troiani's paintings are realistic and academic in style, mostly oil on canvas or Gouache on paper. He uses posed models with clothing and equipment from his collection of original uniforms, equipage, insignia and weapons. Troiani also studies battlefields, weather conditions, 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. Forty of his original paintings have been in a special exhibition at the "Museum of the American Revolution " in Philadelphia from October 2021 until September 2022.
Troiani's artwork has appeared on various media, including:
NBC/Universal
FOX NEWS
CPTV
CNN
NPR (National Public Radio)
America Online
The O'Reilly Factor
Colbert Report
Madam Secretary , TV series
A&E Military and Discovery channels
U.S. Department of State
The Washington Post
"American Revolution Center"
The New York Times
PBS News Hour
Los Angeles Times
U.S. News & World Report
The Washington Times
National Geographic
USA Today
American Heritage*
"FOX Nation"
American Rifleman
American Indian Magazine
Civil War Times
The Arizona Republic
America's Civil War
The Hartford Courant
Southwest Art
Southern Accents
The Boston Globe
Connecticut Magazine
Smithsonian
Antiques and Arts Weekly
Litchfield County Times
Coin World
Waterbury Republican American
Civil War News
Danbury News Times
VFW Magazine
The Courier News
Barnes and Noble Books
Sterling Publishing
The Gettysburg Times
America's Civil War
The Bridgeport Post
Military History
Man at Arms
Numismatist
The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Pallasch Magazine (Austria)
P.M. Magazine (Germany)
Publicat (Poland)
International Churchill Society
Militerhistorie (Norway)
Confederate Veteran
Art Business News
Fine Art Connoisseur
Civil War Preservation Trust
The Times Picayune
Warner Brothers Productions
both publications of the Daughters/Sons of the American Revolution
Antiques Roadshow FYI Magazine
Scholastic Inc
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ct Insider
Broad Street Review
Metro-Philly
Trenton Times
The Norwalk Hour
"Dorling Kindersley "
"Stride"
"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt"
"Stackpole Books"
"The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc."
" Bonnier Publications"
" America's Civil War Magazine"
" Morningside Press"
" Knox Press"
" World History Group"
" South Carolina Educational Television"
" WCTV"
Militaria collector
Troiani has an extensive collection of Civil War, War of 1812, Revolutionary War, and World War II uniforms, equipage, insignia and weapons. He also consults and appraises for museums 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, Museum of the American Revolution, Pamplin Park, The West Point Museum, Virginia Historical Society, Museum of the American Revolution, and the National Park Service Visitors Center in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Historical consultant
Troiani has been a consultant on Civil War uniforms and equipage for the feature film, Cold Mountain,[1][2] 52 episodes of History Channel's Civil War Journal, and the 1994 A&E miniseries The American Revolution.
Institutions holding or displaying his work
United States State Department
Wisconsin Military Academy
The Booth Museum of Western Art, Cartersville, GA.
Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology
The Washington Monument
Gettysburg National Historical Park
National Museum of the United States Army, Fort Belvoir, Va.