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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 ...
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]
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.
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]
David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet; William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist; Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist; Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist; Harry Barr (1896-1987) – English painter; John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand born illustrator
The 130-foot HMS Tyger, which had been around since about 1647, patrolled waters off Florida and chased Spanish ships into the Gulf of Mexico during an Anglo-Spanish conflict known as the War of ...
The HMS Tyger was the first of three British war vessels to become engulfed in the Florida Keys. The other two, HMS Fowey and HMS Looe were both identified by archaeologists, yet the Tyger ...
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