sketch drawing, STUDY FOR 'THE SERGEANTS MESS'
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19710261-3918
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Hughes, Captain Edward John
- Date Made 1941
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1941/01/01
- Latest 1941/12/31
- Inscription VERSO IN PENCIL: 11:35 - 12:00 HRS; 25 MIN NOV 29/40; NOTE FOR COOKHOUSE
- Medium carbon pencil
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Measurements Height 17.7 cm, Width 25.5 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.