Australia,
Britain
and Canada
in the
Second World War
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Britain
The British program hired most of the important British artists of the day. Their works combine traditional approaches to painting with the artists' own interpretations and experiences of the complex, diverse, and technologically-driven conflict. Their paintings reveal an underlying support for the war and are rarely confrontational, critical, or violent.

In the shelter, Edward Ardizzone CBE RA, IWM ART LD 472 Refugees at Udine, 1945, Edward Bawden RA, IWM ART LD 5210 British prisoners of war, Italy 1946, Paul Bullard, IWM ART 16315 A Bofors gun, Algiers, Henry Carr RA, IWM ART LD 2964 Incendiaries in a suburb, Henry Carr RA, IWM ART LD 1518 The Merchant Navy: the chain-locker, Henry Carr RA, IWM ART 2590 British women and children interned in a Japanese prison camp, Leslie Cole, IWM ART LD 5620 Burma - 14th Army: the battle of the Sittang Bend, Leslie Cole, IWM ART LD 5617 A child bomb-victim receiving penicillin treatment, Ethel Gabain, IWM ART LD 5775 St Paul's, 1941, Duncan Grant, IWM AWM LD 1844 Battle of Arakan, 1943: men of the 7th Rajput Regiment resting on South Hill, Anthony Gross CBE RA, IWM ART LD 3334 A nursery-school for war workers' children, Elsie Hewland, IWM ART LD 2371 A camouflaged runway, Cedric Kennedy, IWM ART LD 2758 Ruby Loftus screwing a breech-ring, Laura Knight RA, IWM ART LD 2850 The camouflage workshop, Leamington Spa, Edwin La Dell ARA, IWM ART LD 322 VE Day street party, 1945, Edwin La Dell ARA, IWM ART 15849 9 ATS at Work, Rodrigo Moynihan RA CBE, IWM ART LD 3630 Battle of Britain, Paul Nash, IWM ART LD 1550 Glass-blowers 'gathering' from the furnace, Mervyn Peake, IWM ART LD 2851 A rescue-ship in the Atlantic, March 1943, George Plante, IWM ART LD 3055 HMS Ark Royal in action, Eric Ravilious, IWM ART LD 284 A crater in the naval dockyard, Hong Kong, Leonard Rosoman RA, IWM ART LD 5650 Construction of a runway at an aerodrome, Alan Sorrell, IWM ART LD 5674 Patients waiting outside a first aid post in a factory, Ruskin Spear RA, IWM ART LD 2683 The City: a fallen lift shaft, Graham Sutherland OM, IWM ART LD 893 A saline bath, RAF hospital, Alfred Thomson RA, IWM ART LD 3629 Recruit's progress: medical inspection, Carel Weight CBE RA, IWM ART LD 2909 A parachute bomb, WMatvyn right, IWM ART LD 1355 Human laundry, Belsen: April 1945, Doris Zinkeisen, IWM ART LD 5468
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