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British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914. (London: Greenhill, 1993). ISBN 1-85367-157-6; Haycock, David Boyd. "A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War". (London: Old Street Publishing). Hichberger, J.W.M. (1988). Images of the Army: The Military in British Art 1815–1914 ...
During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
November 7–December 14 – British painter Colin Gill, having previously served as a soldier on the Western Front, returns to France to work for the British War Memorials Committee. December 3 – The November Group (Novembergruppe) of expressionist artists is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. [2]
The Harvest of Battle (1918) (Art.IWM ART 1921) In 1918, after some negotiation, Nevinson agreed to work for the British War Memorials Committee to produce a single large artwork for a proposed, but never built, Hall of Remembrance. He was offered an honorary commission as a Second Lieutenant but refused, fearing it would prejudice his medical ...
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II. A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.
Jack Bridger Chalker (10 October 1918 – 15 November 2014), was a British artist and teacher best known for his work recording the lives of the prisoners of war building the Burma Railway during World War II. [1]
Pages in category "British war artists" The following 174 pages are in this category, out of 174 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
By the end of 1916, Pryse had made an application to become a war artist, and towards the end of the war, was granted permission to sketch at the front and he was able to record the conditions of trench warfare in numerous water-colour drawings, but many of these were lost in the German offensive of 1918. [3]