Pages tagged with: war art

Painting of James Crichton VC
Examples of badly-damaged paper sketches in New Zealand's National Collection of War Art
Following the end of the war, attention turned to where New Zealand's official First World War art collection would be stored. Plans for a National War Memorial Museum in Wellington were never completed, leaving the collection in limbo for the next thirty years
International war art donated to New Zealand following the First World War
Video about the 'Artists in Uniform' art exhibition held in New Zealand during the Second World War
Sunken road near Solesmes by George Edmund Butler, October 1918
Menin Road from Hooge Crater by George Edmund Butler, circa 1918
Butte de Polygon by George Edmund Butler, 1920.

George Edmund Butler became New Zealand’s second official war artist in August 1918 – as it turned out, just three months before the end of the war. There are almost 100 of his works in New Zealand's National Collection of War Art, making him this country's most prolific First World War artist.

Artist George Edumnd Butler alongside one of his paintings, circa 1932
Dugouts Vlamentinghe, Belgium by Cecil Trevithick, 17 February 1918
New Zealanders graves in Codford churchyard by Frederick Herbert Cumberworth, circa 1918
NZ Military HQ Bloomsbury Square, London by G. E. Woolley, 1919.
With the Anzac Wireless Squadron in Persia by H. M. McFarlane, circa 1918.
Cartoon drawn by Ernest Herber Thompson for his 1918 publication Light Diet: 150 Caricatures and Sketches Perpetrated by a New Zealand Artist in and out of Hospital.
Cartoon entitled 'Anxiety' from the Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.., 30 August 1916
Frances Hodgkins painting in her studio in Bowen Street, Wellington, circa 1905.

Nugent Herrmann Welch was New Zealand’s first ‘war artist.’ The 32 works that he made as an official war artist stand as a unique and highly personal record of New Zealand’s involvement in the First World War from the perspective of a soldier who served within the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).

Portrait of Nugent Hermann Welch by Victor Leonard William Mitchell
New Zealand soldiers used art to interpret the experience of the war for an audience of noncombatant civilians. Civilian artists in turn produced works that responded to and explored the public’s perception of the war.

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