painting, Japanese Mountain Gun in Snow
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19710261-3385
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
1942-1943 Aleutians Campaign - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Hughes , C.M., O.B.C., Captain Edward John
- Date Made 1943
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1943/01/01
- Latest 1943/12/31
- Inscription (recto): E. J. HUGHES 1943 (verso): 22; KH22; JAPANESE MOUNTAIN GUN IN SNOW. KISKA DEC 12/43; R ; NO security objection H. P. ROSS LT for COL DMI (verso label/étiquette): Artist CAPTAIN E J HUGHES Title JAPANESE MOUNTAIN GUN IN SNOW Property of Return Address THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, OTTAWA, ONTARIO Insurance Value $
- Medium Conté crayonwatercolourpastel
- Support papermat
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Japanese Army
- Measurements Height 27.7 cm, Width 37.9 cm
- Caption Hughes, E.J. (b. 1913)
- Additional Information In 1939 Hughes enlisted in the RCA as a gunner. Appointed a war artist in 1940, he was posted to Petawawa, Ontario, and in 1942, to England. From 1943 to 1946, as an official war artist, he painted in Kiska, Alaska, and in Ottawa. His precisely executed, post-war landscape paintings of British Columbia are well-known.