Vivian Pitchforth
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Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA ARWS was an English painter, teacher and an official British war artist during the Second World War. He excelled at watercolours and in later years concentrated on landscap
The First British Troops in Rangoon (Art.IWM ART LD 5181)
A Parachute-landing, 1940
The Chamber, The House of Commons (Art.IWM ART LD 1581)
The War Artists Advisory Committee, was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its
Vivian Pitchforth
…Edith Brenda Matthews at Chelsea Register Office. Pitchforth began the war painting scenes of bomb damage around London on short-term contracts for the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC). These works quickly led to Pitchforth being given a salaried position with WAAC in 1940, in which he painted further scenes of bombed buildings…
Factory workers going to work at the Mather & Platt, Manchester, in the snow, by L. S. Lowry, 1943
The Passage to the Control-room at South West Regional Headquarters, Bristol, (Art. IWM ART LD 170), by John Piper
Coggeshall Church, Essex, (Tate, 1940) by John Armstrong
A Brother and Sister Sheltering in the Underground, 1941, (Art.IWM ART LD 795), by Edmond Xavier Kapp