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  • The Naming of Parts The Naming of Parts

    (art) Made by: Crook, P J 2003

    image: a wooden cutlery tray balances on some wooden blocks on a small bookcase, forming a display container for various wooden items: spheres, cubes and cones, counters for board games and pieces that look as if they may have once been part of a chair...

  • Other Mothers' Sons Other Mothers' Sons

    (art) Made by: Crook, P J 1991

    image: lines of Gulf war soldiers in formation, with only their heads and shoulders visible. The different helmets and headgear reflect the different nationalities of the soldiers involved, with British and American style helmets amongst them. All are...

  • Exercise Kruschen (Dunwich Common): Tank Fascines; the 'Snake' Ronson flame-throwers Exercise Kruschen (Dunwich Common): Tank Fascines; the 'Snake' Ronson flame-throwers

    (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

    image: a large landscape scene of military exercises on Dunwich Common. On the far left soldiers are seen constructing tank fascines and defences. Churchill tanks are in the centre of the composition with four tanks in the middle distance, one of which...

  • Queen and Country Queen and Country

    (art) Made by: MCQUEEN, STEVE 2006

    Wooden stamp cabinet on metal legs with 120 double-sided wooden sliders in which are displayed 136 prints in the form of sheets of stamps featuring portrait photograph images of British military personnel who died on active service in Iraq.

  • Drydocked for Scaling and Painting Drydocked for Scaling and Painting

    (art) Made by: Wadsworth, Edward Alexander (ARA) 1918

    image: A scene from the bottom of a dry dock with a gang of painters red-leading the bottom of a dazzle-painted ship.

  • Lecture on the Lawn II Lecture on the Lawn II

    (art) Made by: Kahn, Erich 1940

    image: A group of men sitting on a lawn having an animated discussion. One man, who sits with his back to the viewer with his hands in the air, appears to be leading the discussion.

  • Isle of Man, 1940 - The Window 'Internment' series Isle of Man, 1940 - The Window 'Internment' series

    (art) Made by: Uhlman, Fred 1940

    image: three internees look out of a large window that is covered with horizontal metal bars, with barbed wire also covering the exterior.

  • My Bedroom - The Artist Uses his Suitcase as a Work Surface, in the Absence of a Table 'Internment' series My Bedroom - The Artist Uses his Suitcase as a Work Surface, in the Absence of a Table 'Internment' series

    (art) Made by: Uhlman, Fred 1940

    image: a man sits drawing with his back to the viewer, hunched over a suitcase propped up horizontally across his knees, one end supported on the end of his bed. On the window in front of him are the shapes of some flowers and a fish. Several drawings,...