painting, 25-Pounder Field Gun, Holland
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Event
1939-1945 Second World War
Europe - Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Colville, Captain Alex
- Date Made 1944/12/08
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1944/12/08
- Latest 1944/12/08
- Inscription On verso, in red crayon, on lower center area: 4029. On verso, upper left corner in black media: LT. DA. COLVILLE; "B-1 GUN"; NEAR NIJMEGAN; 8 DEC 44; "B" TROOP. On verso, brown paper adhesive label from National Gallery of Canada
- Medium watercolour
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Branch Royal Canadian Artillery
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Unit 12th Field Regiment
- Measurements Height 39.3 cm, Width 57.9 cm
- Caption Alex Colville (1920 - 2013)
- Additional Information Internationally recognized as one of Canada's leading artists, Alex Colville spent most of his youth in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and later attended nearby Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. After graduation he joined the Canadian Army and was appointed a war artist. Upon arriving in London, Colville was stationed with a supply unit in Yorkshire. He subsequently travelled to the Mediterranean, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. In 1946 he returned to Mount Allison as a teacher. Following his retirement in 1963, Colville devoted all of his time to painting. He moved to Wolfville in 1973 and from 1981 to 1991 served as Chancellor of Acadia University.
- Caption 25 pounder Field Gun, Hollaand, 1944
- Additional Information The British 25-pdr Mk II was one of the standard field Howitzer guns used by British Commonwealth nations. The Canadian 12th Field Regiment used this one near Nijmegen, Holland.