Charcoal, chalk, ink and watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Torpedoed Oil Tanker
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
adults
destruction
emotions, concepts and ideas
history
man
military: World War II
people
ship, tanker
shipwreck
society
transport: water
universal concepts
World War II - non-specific
paper unique charcoal chalk ink watercolour
23 June 2009 – 5 September 2009
2009-09-05
23 June 2009 – 5 September 2009
2009-09-05
2009-06-23
Fleming Collection (London, UK)
http://www.flemingcollection.co.uk
2009-06-23
Sir Muirhead Bone
Loan-out
4 March 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
4 March 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
2014-03-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-03-04
Ruin Lust
Exhibition
10 October 2014 – 22 February 2015
2015-02-22
10 October 2014 – 22 February 2015
2015-02-22
2014-10-10
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
2014-10-10
The Sensory War 1914 - 2014
Loan-out
Torpedoed Oil Tanker
support: 592 × 915 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
<p><b>N05686</b>	TORPEDOED OIL TANKER 1940
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Muirhead Bone 1940’ b.l. in pencil and ‘Muirhead Bone’ b.r. in ink.
<br/>Charcoal, chalk, pen and wash, 23×35 1/2 (58×90).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1941–2, Glasgow, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (940).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> <i>War Pictures at the National Gallery</i>, 1941, pl.8.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXXIII, 1942, p.2; Eric Newton, <i>War through Artists' Eyes</i>, 1945, p.28.</p>
<p>In spite of extensive damage the tanker not only reached port but completed another voyage before being properly repaired. One of the officers remarked to the artist: ‘Looks as if the rats had been at her - more like mice the other side.’</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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2004-07-22T00:00:00
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adults destruction emotions, concepts and ideas history man military: World War II people ship, tanker shipwreck society transport: water universal concepts World War II - non-specific