A contemporary of William Orpen, Anna Airy trained at the Slade School of Art. She was one of the first women war artists, employed by the newly founded Imperial War Museum in 1918. Although a well-respected and successful female artist of her generation...
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Born in 1886, Siegfried Sassoon studied history and law at Cambridge before enlisting in the ranks of the Sussex Yeomanry in August 1914. A poet of little note before the war, he became one of the best known – and most controversial – poets and novelists...
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‘Trench art’ is a term that embraces a wide variety of objects made from the debris and by-products of modern warfare. These items are chiefly associated with the First World War, although similar items have been produced in many conflicts. Little, if...
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The war art schemes developed by the British government during the First World War were an unprecedented act of government sponsorship of the arts. As the schemes evolved, they ultimately explored every aspect of conflict, from the violence of industrial...