The Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts Canteen Concert, Isle of Dogs, London, E14 by Kenneth Rowntree – IWM (Imperial War Museums) 1941
At the beginning of the Second World War, the War Artists Advisory Committee was created to look at ways that Art could be used to support the war effort.
The Committee was led by Sir Kenneth Clark , Director of the National Gallery with the remit of documenting the conflict, raising morale and promoting national culture.
It was recognised that the original war artist scheme in the First World War had played an important role and Clark bought together a number of well known artists and commissioned work at home and aboard.
Artist such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer produced works,however there was a large number of artists who used the conflict to record the day to day existence of ordinary…
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