WAR ARTISTS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Photographic Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings. World War 2.
Unpublished, c. 1946. 2 Volumes. Folio, each 380 x 280 mm. and containing 210 mounted photographs of paintings and drawings, each photograph around 240 x 180 mm. and smaller. The bindings worn and loose, spines lacking. Headed by Sir Kenneth Clark, The stated aim of the WAAC, and the War Artists Advisory Scheme, which it ran, was "to draw up a list of artists qualified to record the war at home and abroad. In co-operation with the Services Departments, and other Government Departments...to advise on the selection of artists on this list for war purposes and on the arrangements for their employment." Apparently a contemporary catalogue of a selection of drawings and paintings commissioned by the WAAC during World War 2, it contains a small selection from the 5,570 works produced by over 400 artists, some directly employed by the WAAC, and some whose work was submitted to the committee and subsequently purchased. Around 3,000 works now reside with the Imperial War Museum, the rest scattered in galleries throughout Britain and overseas, apart from a 111 which were lost on their way to South America when their boat was sunk. The artists here represented include many of the best known of the period: Edward Ardizzone, John Armstrong, Keith Armstrong, Robert Austin, Joseph Bato, Edward Bawden, Sam Black, Muirhead Bone, Stephen Bone, Henry Carr, Bernard Casson, William Clause, Charles Cundall, Robin Darwin, Francis Dodd, Evelyn Dunbar, Reginald Grenville Eves, Michael Ford, Barnett Freedman, Hubert Freeth, Ethel Gabain, Anthony Gross, James Gunn, Kathleen Guthrie, Bernard Hailstone, Clifford Hall, Thomas Hennell, Norman Hepple, Edmond Kapp, Henry Lamb Akenola Lasekan, Alexander MacPherson, P.G. Maloba, John Mansbridge, James Miller, Henry Moore, Cuthbert Orde, Charles Pears, Roland Pitchforth, Eric Ravilious, William Rawlinson, William Roberts, Michael Rothenstein, P. Schwabe, Julius Stafford-Baker, Graham Sutherland, Alfred Thomson, Jack Yeats plus a few others whose signatures do not appear or which are indecipherable. There are multiple examples by Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Cuthbert Orde and others.
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Keywords: Art and Illustration