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Description: | image: A study of support timbers in a tunnel.
The painting for which this is a study, 'Sappers under Hill 60, St Eloi' is at the Canadian War
Memorial.
In Bomberg’s studies the people become one with the structural supports of the tunnel.
These are supporting studies for a large-scale painting commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund (CWMF). The CWMF wanted to commemorate one of the most ambitious and complex tunnelling projects of the First World War. The excavations under Hill 60 at St Eloi on the Western Front began in 1916 and went as deep as twenty-five metres underground, taking eight months to reach enemy lines.
Bomberg's experience as a sapper [military engineer] would have made him a natural choice; however the commissioners had difficulty accepting his radical style. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Canadian Tunnelling Coy R14 Military Personnel British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bomberg, David | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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