The Korean War

Dunkirk Beaches, 1940

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Catalogue number
  • Art.IWM ART LD 2277
Production date
1940
Subject period
Materials
  • medium: oil
  • support: cardboard
  • support: panel
Dimensions
  • Support: Height 228 mm
  • Support: Width 457 mm
  • Frame: Height 315 mm
  • Frame: Width 543 mm
  • Frame: Depth 30 mm
Alternative Names
  • object category: painting
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Category
art

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Object description

image: View across the beach at Dunkirk with lines of soldiers preparing for evacuation and walking through the surf to small boats waiting offshore. A black pall of smoke hangs in the sky and bomb craters pock the sand to the left of the composition

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War Artists Advisory Committee commission

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Richard Eurich

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