William Scott's war

• Autores: Sarah Whitfield, Lucy Inglis
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 150, Nº 1261, 2008, págs. 232-237
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Artist William Scott was very dismissive of the pictures he painted while in the army during the Second World War. He painted about 80 watercolors while stationed at Ruabon, North Wales, from September 1944 until July 1945. He described these as “caught up in the wave of the English watercolour nationalist romantic patriotic isolationist self-preservationist movement.” This view has not been seriously challenged because very few of these works were known or reproduced until recently. In fact, while the paintings reveal a familiarity with the Neo-romanticism of the period, they owe just as much to Scott's own artistic roots.