Norman Wilkinson (artist)
Norman Wilkinson was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War.
Wilkinson in front of his painting with a model demonstrating one of his dazzle camouflage designs
Wilkinson's illustration of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania from The Illustrated London News
A painting by Wilkinson of a convoy with his invention of dazzle painting, 1918
A Monitor with 14-inch Guns Shelling Yeni Sher Village and the Asiatic Batteries in the Dardanelles, in the First World War
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London.
Detail of Picadilly premises
Premises at Picadilly 1883–1970