Painting and Sculpture
Anti-aircraft Defences
Anti-aircraft defences is an oil on canvas painting by the British artist C. R. W. Nevinson, from 1940. It is held in the collection of the Imperial War Museum, in London. It depicts anti-aircraft batteries and London Blitz spotlights. It was transferred to the museum in 1947 by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Nevinson was hugely disappointed not to be offered a governmental commission for his work, and so this painting was created at a time of discord between him and Kenneth Clark.
Also on this shelf
Amy Hughes (artist).
Drunken Hercules (after Rubens).
See also
- ▸City of Workers
- ▸Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May 1901 Marking the Centenary of its Foundation
- ▸Gaston Orellana
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