end younger artists, including Stanley Spencer and Wyndham Lewis, were commissioned by the BWMC to produce a series of large artworks, After the War, when the BWMC was wound up, this series of artworks, which included The Menin Road by Paul Nash and Gassed by John Singer Sargent, became part of the Imperial War Museum collection. Second World War The British War Advisory Scheme (WAS) was administered by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC, of the Ministry of Information. The project was devised and run by Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery. When the committee was dissolved in December 1945 its collection consisted of 5,570 works of art produced by over four hundred artists, who had been employed on either full-time contracts, short-term contracts or commissions for individual works. Selected artists First World War Anna Airy (1882–1964) David Bomberg (1890–1957). Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953. Frank Brangwyn, 1867–1956. Philip Connard, 1875–1958. George Clausen, 1852–1944. Olive Edis, 1876–1955. Colin Gill, 1892–1940. Adrian Hill, 1895–1977. Francis Ernest Jackson, 1872–1945 Augustus John, 1878–1961. Eric Kennington RA, 1888–1960. Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957. John Hodgson Lobley, 1878–1954. Fortunino Matania John Nash, 1893–1977. Paul Nash, 1889–1946. Christopher R. W. Nevinson Herbert Arnould Olivier, 1861–1952. Sir William Orpen RA, 1878–1931; Charles Snaffles Johnson Payne (1884–1967); Gerald Spencer Pryse, 1882–1956. William Rothenstein, 1872–1945. Austin Spare, 1886–1956. Sir Stanley Spencer RA, 1891–1959. Leonard Campbell Taylor, 1874–1969 Second World War Edward Ardizzone CBE RA, 1900–1979. Edward Bawden RA, 1903–1989. Stephen Bone 1904–1958 David Bomberg 1890–1957 Henry Carr RA, 1894–1970 Leslie Cole, 1910–1976 Charles Cundall, 1890–1971 Evelyn Mary Dunbar Richard Eurich, 1903-1989. Barnett Freedman Ethel Gabain, 1882–1950 Charles Ginner Duncan Grant, 1885–1978 Thomas Hennell, 1903–1945 Eliot Hodgkin, 1905–1987 Eric Kennington, RA, 1888–1960. Mary Kessell, 1914–1977. Laura Knight DBE RA, 1877–1970. L. S. Lowry John Mansbridge, 1901–1981 Henry Moore James Morris Paul Nash, 1889–1946. Mervyn Peake, 1911–1968 John Piper Roland Vivian Pitchforth, 1895–1982 Eric Ravilious, 1903–1942 Albert Richards, 1919–1945 Leonard Rosoman RA, 1913–2012 Alan Sorrell, 1904–1974. Ruskin Spear RA, 1911–1990 Stanley Spencer RA, 1891–1959. Graham Sutherland OM, 1903–1980 Carel Weight CBE RA, 1908–1997 Doris Zinkeisen, 1898–1991 Anna Zinkeisen, 1901–1976 Conflicts since the Second World War Since the First World War and the Imperial War Museums' establishment of a national collection of Official War Art, the IWM has played a major role in Official War Artist commissioning. In the early 1970s, for the first time since the Second World War and the WAAC scheme, the