Chalk and ink on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-bomberg-777" aria-label="More by David Bomberg" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Bomberg</a>
Canadian War Painting
Purchased 1923
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
architecture
arm / arms raised
Belgium
Belgium, Flanders
Canadian
carrying / holding
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
girder
hammering
history
industrial and crafts
man
military
military: World War I
nationality
objects
people
places
society
soldier
tools and machinery
townscapes / man-made features
tunnel
winch
work and occupations
World War I - non-specific
Ypres
Ypres, Sint-Elooi
paper unique chalk ink
20 September 2014 – 13 December 2014
2014-12-13
20 September 2014 – 13 December 2014
2014-12-13
2014-09-20
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
2014-09-20
Screaming Steel : Trauma and Warfare in Poems and Paintings 1914 - 1918
Loan-out
Study for Canadian War Painting
frame: 542 × 455 × 20 mm
image: 395 × 316 mm
Purchased 1923
<p><b>N03723</b> STUDY FOR CANADIAN WAR PAINTING <i>c.</i>
1918–19
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen and wash, 15 1/2×12 1/2 (39·5×32).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Arts Council, September–October 1958 and provincial tour (59).</p>
<p>A study for the large picture ‘Sappers at work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company. Hill 60, St Eloi’, commissioned in 1918 and now in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> is discussed in the entry for <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bomberg-study-for-sappers-at-work-a-canadian-tunnelling-company-hill-60-st-eloi-t00319" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T00319</span></a>, a full-scale oil study for the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults architecture arm / arms raised Belgium Belgium, Flanders Canadian carrying / holding cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features girder hammering history industrial and crafts man military military: World War I nationality objects people places society soldier tools and machinery townscapes / man-made features tunnel winch work and occupations World War I - non-specific Ypres Ypres, Sint-Elooi