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
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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A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record. War artists e
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash. Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II
A war artist in German-occupied France in 1941
Australians and New Zealanders at Klerksdorp 24 March 1901 by Charles Hammond
The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 by Denis Dighton, c. 1825