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Description: | Japp
image: A team of soldiers pulling an artillery piece up a hill toward a camouflaged gun emplacement. They are all dressed
in shorts, and have their shirtsleeves rolled up. There is one soldier pushing the wheels from behind, and the rest pull, spaced at
intervals along the ropes.
This is one of a series of paintings commissioned by the British War Memorial Committee set up by the Ministry of
Information early in 1918. The Committee developed a scheme to build a ‘Great memorial gallery’ devoted to ‘fighting subjects, home
subjects and the war at sea and in the air’. The centre of the scheme was to be a coherent series of paintings based on the dimensions of
Uccello’s ‘Battle of San Romano’ in the National Gallery (72 x 125 inches), this size being considered suitable for a commemorative battle
painting. While the commissions included some of the most avant-garde British artists of the time, the BWMC advisors saw the scheme placed
within the tradition of artistic patronage, influenced by models from the Renaissance. It was intended that both the art and the setting
would celebrate national ideals of heroism and sacrifice. The Hall of Remembrance was never completed and the collection was given to the
Imperial War Museum.
Ministry of Information commission Scheme 1. Commission administration transferred to Imperial War
Museum | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Artillery Royal Field Artillery British Army 1914-1918 Military Personnel Salonika Campaign 1915-1918 British Army Landscape 01/3(497) Salonika 1915-1918 Balkans Camouflage Artillery First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Japp, Darsie (MC) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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