Sergeant First Class Elzie Ray Golden was a soldier-artist at the U.S.
Army Center of Military History (CMH), Museum Division from 2002-2005.
Prior to his coming to CMH, his last duty assignment was at the Defense
Information School (DINFOS), Basic Graphics Course (BGR), Fort George G.
Meade, Maryland, where he served for fifty months, training future joint
service multimedia illustrators.
At DINFOS, SFC Golden supervised nineteen joint service instructors and
performed the duties of BGR branch supervisor and course coordinator
concurrently for two years, and the duties of course coordinator and team
leader, functional area one, illustration and design, concurrently for one
year. He also ensured that academic and administrative problems were
resolved for more than 400 joint service students and established an
academic top ten to recognize superior students. During his last year at
DINFOS, he was tasked to rewrite, reference, and validate content for the
illustration and design block of instruction, totaling one third of the
entire course.
SFC Golden produced fourteen works of art as a member of the
Soldier-Artist Team 25 in 1990 that documented ROTC training at Fort
Lewis, Washington. He designed the May 1992 cover of Soldiers magazine
featuring women in the Army during World War II, the 1991-1994 Army
Aviation Association Commander's Conference posters, and the Armed Forces
Day posters for 2001 and 2002. His works of art are featured in the Center
of Military History books, Portrait of an Army and Soldiers Serving the
Nation. The Army Historical Foundation also featured his work in the book
The Army, published in 2001. SFC Golden has been the subject of articles
and interviews for ArtForum and Der Spiegel magazines, German public
television and public radio, and the Hartford Courant newspaper.
He won first place in 2000 in the fine art category of the first Military
Graphic Artist of the Year (MILGRAPH) competition, and again in 2002.
SFC. Golden studied fine art at the School of Visual Arts in New York and
the University of Arizona. He entered active military duty in October
1984. His assignments include the 13th Support Command, Fort Hood Texas;
2d Infantry Division, Camp Casey, South Korea; Training Support Activity,
Eighth Army, East Korea, Yongsan, South Korea; and the 10th Aviation
Brigade, Fort Rucker, Alabama.
The following pieces of artwork are representative of his work.