Art from the Second World War is one of the books that I got for Christmas. It was published by the Imperial War Museum and it’s their collection of artworks.
I’m interested in the war although mainly from the social home front aspect, and many of the artworks depicted in this book are of war workers and even of people queuing outside a fishmongers and poulterers.
It’s a lovely book although some of the images are quite disturbing – such as the one of bodies in Belsen. I prefer to concentrate on the more domestic images.
It contains works by Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Mervyn Peake ( I didn’t even know he painted), Laura Knight, Eric Ravilious and many more.
The image below was painted by Evelyn Dunbar.
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And the one below by Laura Knight (Dame) is of a balloon team.
That sounds very interesting, Katrina. I like both of the paintings you included in the post.
tracybham,
There’s quite a variation in subjects in this book but they’re all by talented artists, mostly men mind you – but such is/was life.
Jack and I just went to an exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, here in Philadelphia. It’s a small museum / art school that we enjoy. One of the exhibits we saw was WWI art. You might like to look at their link to the show: https://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/world-war-i-and-american-art
Joan,
Thanks for that link, I really wish I had been able to go to that exhibition, it looks very interesting.