These are fantastic, thank you for posting. It's great to look through the high quality scans of the originals. Excellent designs.
Imperial War Museums An AA Battery in Holland: January 1945 (Art.IWM ART LD 4917) Catalogue number Art.IWM ART LD 4917 Creator Hennell, Thomas Barclay image: a British anti-aircraft battery in a flat, snow-covered Dutch landscape. Two guns are on the right, with their crews busying themselves amongst them. Further back in the middle of the composition is another AA gun.
World War II: Official War Artists - Group - National Portrait Gallery World War II: Official War Artists 37 People in artist grouping: Under the guidance of the National Gallery Director Kenneth Clark, The War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC) was established in 1939. Chaired by Clark and administered by the Government Ministry of Information and The British War Advisory Scheme, the group met monthly to coordinate the project, including selecting the artists, their pay and commissions. Each artist's primary purpose was to create imagery for propaganda, but it was widely understood that their work was more than just illustrating mass produced posters and pamphlets. By employing so many of the country's most talented artists, the committee were not only allowing the creation of an important and lasting record of the atrocities faced at home and on the front line, but also trying to preserve the lives and talents of the artists themselves for future generations. By 1945 the collection had amassed more than 5570 works. David Garshen Bomberg 1890-1957 Painter Charles Ginner 1878-1952 Painter Duncan Grant 1885-1978 Artist Eric Henri Kennington 1888-1960 Sculptor and artist Dame Laura Knight 1877-1970 Artist Laurence Stephen ('L.S.') Lowry 1887-1976 Painter Henry Moore 1898-1986 Sculptor Paul Nash 1889-1946 Artist Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson 1889-1946 Artist John Egerton Christmas Piper 1903-1992 Artist and writer Sir Stanley Spencer 1891-1959 Painter Graham Vivian Sutherland 1903-1980 Painter Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone 1900-1979 Artist and illustrator John Armstrong 1893-1973 Painter and soldier Robert Sargent Austin 1895-1973 Artist Edward Bawden 1903-1989 Painter and illustrator Stephen Bone 1904-1958 Artist, writer and broadcaster Henry Marvell Carr 1894-1970 Painter Sir William Menzies Coldstream 1908-1987 Painter Casualty reception station, Capua: Sir William Coldstream, war artist Charles Cundall 1890-1971 Painter and printmaker Simon Elwes 1902-1975 Artist Richard Ernst Eurich 1903-1992 Painter Barnett Freedman 1901-1958 Artist Anthony Imre Alexander Gross 1905-1984 Painter and etcher Eliot Hodgkin 1905-1987 Artist and writer Rodrigo Moynihan 1910-1990 Painter Cuthbert Julian Orde 1888-1968 RAF Captain and artist Mervyn Laurence Peake 1911-1968 Artist and writer Charles Pears 1873-1958 Artist; Royal Marine (Roland) Vivian Pitchforth 1895-1982 Artist Eric William Ravilious 1903-1942 Painter, engraver and mural decorator Leonard Rosoman 1913-2012 Painter Sir William Rothenstein 1872-1945 Artist and teacher of art Ruskin Spear 1911-1990 Painter Carel Victor Morlais Weight 1908-1997 Painter and teacher of art Anna Katrina Zinkeisen 1901-1976 Painter Doris Clare Zinkeisen 1897-1991 Painter, stage-set and costume designer, writer and equestrian champion
WAR ARTISTS MEET IN ITALY Catalogue number: NA 14235 Creator: No. 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit Object description: Captain Henry Carr, War artist with the allied troops in Italy, paints war artist Captain Edward Ardizzone's portrait, when they meet for the first time in Italy. Ardizzone arrived in the country with the 8th Army, to whom he has been attached for over two years. BRITISH OFFICIAL WAR ARTISTS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR Catalogue number: H 37760 Creator: Malindine, E G (Capt), War Office official photographer Object description: Half length portrait of Captain Anthony Gross, an Official War Artist. WAR ARTISTS PAINTS SAILOR'S PORTRAIT. 19 APRIL 1944, NAPLES, ITALY. Object description: Captain H M Carr, Official Army War Artist, at work on his portrait of O/Tel M A Easton, who is sitting for him. Creator: Priest, L C (Lt) Catalogue number: A 22961 THE WORK OF WAR ARTISTS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR Object description: The painting 'Saline Bath at a Royal Air Force Hospital' by A R Thomson. This painting was exhibited at the National Gallery. Creator: British official photographer Catalogue number: TR 2772 Object description: The painting 'Saline Bath at a Royal Air Force Hospital' by A R Thomson. This painting was exhibited at the National Gallery.
Perhaps not `War` art in the traditional sense however- Sunderland Echo:- Veterans and NHS workers were among those invited to the unveiling which featured the Sunderland Standard Bearers and a performance of The Last Post by bugler Scot Barrs of Royal Green Jackets. Kyle