Australia,
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Exhibition Theme - LeisureMess deck
Jack Nichols (b. 1921)
 Contemporary art critic Graham McInnes wrote of Nichols's official war art in 1950: "Groups of sailors in the sick bay, in their hammocks in the foetid below-decks atmosphere of a pitching destroyer, or snatching a few brief moments of leisure in the heat and press of convoy duty: all these convey both the sadness and the ultimate serenity of a scene from Dostoievsky." Mess deck was the last canvas Nichols completed as an official war artist. Notice how the cup held by the central figure is conveyed by a few lines scratched into the paint.
Oil on canvas 86.5 x 127.7 cm << Previous | Leisure Index | Next >>
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