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Survivors a Torpedoed Ship
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
adults
animals: birds
black
boat, lifeboat
collapse
diseases and conditions
ethnicity
hypothermia
man
mist
people
sea
seagull
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: water
weather
<p>Eurich was born in Bradford, where he studied art before entering the Slade School in London. He painted this while he was an Official War Artist to the Admiralty during the Second World War. The artist said that this picture was based on fact. The sailor in the middle helped the other two to cling, half frozen, to the upturned boat. Although the three men were eventually picked up, the sailor in the centre did not survive.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2021</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
20 March 2004 – 28 May 2004
2004-05-28
20 March 2004 – 28 May 2004
2004-05-28
2004-03-20
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2004-03-20
Richard Eurich
Loan-out
29 April 2022 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
29 April 2022 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
2022-04-29
Hastings Contemporary (Hastings, UK)
2022-04-29
Seafaring
Loan-out
Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship
support: 356 × 610 mm
frame: 518 × 772 × 78 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
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<p>Eurich was born in Bradford, where he studied art before entering the Slade School in London. He painted this while he was an Official War Artist to the Admiralty during the Second World War. The artist said that this picture was based on fact. The sailor in the middle helped the other two to cling, half frozen, to the upturned boat. Although the three men were eventually picked up, the sailor in the centre did not survive.</p>
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adults animals: birds black boat, lifeboat collapse diseases and conditions ethnicity hypothermia man mist people sea seagull seascapes and coasts society transport: water weather