The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC), 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 aim was to compile a comprehensive artistic record of Britain throughout the war. This was achieved both by appointing official war artists, on full-time or temporary contracts and by acquiring artworks from other artists. When the committee was dissolved in December 1945 its collection consisted of 5,570 works of art produced by over four hundred artists. This collection was then distributed to museums and institutions in Britain and around the world, with over half of the collection, some 3,000 works, going to the Imperial War Museum.
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
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Anthony Imre Alexander Gross was a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent.
The Battle of Egypt, 1942- Inside an Armoured Command Vehicle in Action (1942)
Battle of Arakan, 1943- Overlooking Japanese Positions at Rathedaung (1943)
British Troops and Vehicles on the Deck of a US Landing Ship Tank (1944)