Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Bomb Falling into Water
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
air raid
bomb
history
military: World War II
natural phenomena
objects
ripple
river
splash
water: inland
weapon, firing / explosion
weapons
<p>As a member of the National Fire Service, Rosoman had first-hand experience of fighting fires during German bombing raids. He was stationed in the East End of London, which was especially badly hit. He explained that <span>Bomb Falling into Water </span>was ‘painted in 1942 when I was in the N.F.S. and was the result of night after night fighting fires in the London dock area – bombs were falling into the Thames and into the water in the docks.’</p><p><em>Gallery label, December 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-04
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2008-10-04
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Exhibition
28 March 2012 – 14 October 2012
2012-10-14
28 March 2012 – 14 October 2012
2012-10-14
2012-03-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-03-28
Patrick Keiller
Collection based display
Bomb Falling into Water
support: 635 × 762 mm
frame: 800 × 930 × 90 mm
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
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<p>As a member of the National Fire Service, Rosoman had first-hand experience of fighting fires during German bombing raids. He was stationed in the East End of London, which was especially badly hit. He explained that <i>Bomb Falling into Water </i>was ‘painted in 1942 when I was in the N.F.S. and was the result of night after night fighting fires in the London dock area – bombs were falling into the Thames and into the water in the docks.’</p>
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2016-12-12T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05729</b> BOMB FALLING INTO WATER 1942</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Leonard Rosoman’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 25×30 (64×76).
<br/>Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the War Artists' Advisory Committee from the Cooling Galleries 1942.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Civil Defence Artists</i>, Cooling Galleries, May 1942 (21); <i>National War Pictures</i>, National Gallery, 1944; <i>Firemen Artists</i>, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June–July 1944; <i>Paintings by Firemen Artists</i>, R.A., October 1944 (51); <i>National War Pictures</i>, Glasgow, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (89).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (6 December 1960): ‘It was painted in 1942 when I was in the N.F.S. and was the result of night after night fighting fires in the London dock area - bombs were falling into the Thames and into the water in the docks.’</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, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-22T00:00:00
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air raid bomb history military: World War II natural phenomena objects ripple river splash water: inland weapon, firing / explosion weapons