Not on display
- Artist
- Anthony Gross 1905–1984
- Medium
- Ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 394 × 571 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05699
Catalogue entry
N05699 LIBERATION AND BATTLE OF FRANCE: CHERBOURG. BATTALION H.Q. OF THE EAST YORKS (50TH NORTHUMBRIAN DIVISION) IN AN ORCHARD, NORMANDY 1944
Inscr. ‘Anthony Gross 44’ b.l.
Watercolour, 15 1/2×22 1/2 (39×57).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (754).
The officers reading a map are Lieutenant H. Morgan, Signals Officer, and Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. James, D.S.O. and two Bars, Battalion Commander.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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