London at War Ulrike Smalley

London at War

• Ulrike Smalley

• Curator

• Department of Art

London during the First World War

London during the First World War

Second World War The War Artists’ Advisory Committee

War Pictures by British Artists

War Pictures by British Artists, published 1942, introduction by R. Gleadow

Blackout

Life goes on

Fire fighting

Sheltering

Sheltering

Sheltering

Sheltering

Working

Working

Aftermath

Aftermath

Ruined City

Ruined City

Ruined City

Ruined City

Ruined City

Blitz Myth

Social Issues

Social Issues

The War Artists’ Advisory Committee collection: An objective record?

The War Artists’ Advisory Committee collection: An objective record?

Publications Andrews, Julian, London’s War. The Shelter Drawings of Henry Moore, Lund Humphries, 2002 Harries, Meirion & Susie, The War Artists. British Official War Art of the Twentieth Century, Michael Joseph, 1983 Foss, Brian, War Paint. Art,War, State and Identity in Britain 1039-1945, Yale University Press, 2007 Mellor, David ed., A Paradise Lost. The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55, Lund Humphries, 1993 Sillars, Stuart, British Romantic Art and the Second World War, Macmillan, 1991 Stansky, Peter & William Abrahams, London’s Burning. Life, Death & Art in the Second World War, Constable & Co, 1994