<i>Nevinson was disappointed not to be offered a commission during the Second World War. He railed against Sir Kenneth</i>
<p>Clark, chairman of the War Artists Advisory Committee, and against the Imperial War Museum.  Nevinson had also been in constant
correspondence with the Imperial War Museum since the First World War owing to his believed ill-treatment by them.<i><br></i>
image: View of an anti-aircraft battery set in countryside with searchlight beams crossing the sky and attendant
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soldiers
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christopher_R._W._Nevinson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Christopher R. W. Nevinson"><span title="British artist (1889-1946)">Christopher R. W. Nevinson</span></a>
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