biography
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| (1889–1946)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in London, UK. He studied at St Paul's and the Slade School of Art, London, and became an official war artist in 1917 (remembered particularly for his poignant ‘Menin Road’, 1919). Developing a style which reduced form to bare essentials, he won renown as a landscape painter, and also practised scene painting, commercial design, and book illustration. For a while he taught at the Royal College of Art. In 1939 he again filled the role of war artist, this time for the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information, producing such pictures as ‘Battle of Britain’ and ‘Totes Meer’ (1940–1, Tate, London). Shortly before his death he turned to a very individual style of flower painting. |
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