sketch drawing, Sketch for Bivouac in a Sussex Wood/Sketch for Armoured Cars, Scout Car and Motor Bike
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19710261-3493
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Hughes, Captain Edward John
- Date Made 1943 or earlier
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1939/01/01
- Latest 1943/04/30
- Inscription (recto): Sketch for "Bivouac in a Sussex Wood" by E.J. Hughes; Sketch for "Armoured Cars, Scout Car and Motor Bike" by E.J. Hughes
- Medium carbon pencil
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Unit Royal Canadian Dragoons
- Measurements Height 26.3 cm, Width 58.2 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.