Busy scene in the Kasbah in Algiera.

Kerr Eby (1889-1946) was a Canadian printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, where his father was working as a missionary. Eby is perhaps best known for his war images, having served in both World Wars. ""The Great Black Cloud"" is one of his most famous prints, depicting an ominous sky above a seemingly insignificant platoon of soldiers as they march across a war-torn landscape.

Eby moved to the United States at the age of eighteen and took up study at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League of New York. He enlisted in the Army in 1917, where he served in the Ambulance Corp before being transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers. His drawings and memories of the Great War resulted in many well-known etchings and lithographs, which he produced after his return.