Alfred Munnings: War Artist 1918
Interesting exhibition at the National Army Museum looking at the work Alfred Munnings did as a war artist for the Canadian War Memorials Fund. Munnings was commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook and this work was pivotal in establishing Munnings as an influential post-war artist. It was well labelled with symbols to highlight three different themes, his experience of a war artist, the military importance of the event and the artistic features. It was nice to see drawings included in the show and in some cases shown with the finished painting. There was also a nice display of the equipment used by the cavalry that he was painting. I found the lighting rather poor for the paintings as there was a lot of reflection and it was sometime hard to find a place to stand so you could see the whole work. The show was arranged in interesting themes starting with the landscape work he did when he first arrived in France, his time with the cavalry and the work of the forestry units. The ...