Three Soldiers Shortly to Leave for an Officer Cadet Training Unit Playing Chess

Rodrigo Moynihan (1910 - 1990)

Oil on canvas

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Cabinet Office, 70 Whitehall
  • About the artist
    Born in Tenerife, Rodrigo Moynihan grew up in America and Italy. He studied at the Slade School of Art (1928-1931) and co-founded ‘Objective Abstraction’, a radical artistic group in London in 1934 that rejected geometric abstraction in favour of abstraction inspired by nature. By 1937, his work shifted towards figurative painting and he became involved with the Euston Road School. Moynihan was an Official War Artist in the Second World War and became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1944. He also taught at the Royal College of Art (1948-1957). He returned to abstract painting in the 1950s, but by the early 1970s, returned to figurative painting including commissioned works and self-portraits.
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    Subjects
    chess, smoking pipe, WW2 art, genre, man, military uniform, spectacles, soldier, World War II, table (as Subject)
    Materials & Techniques
    canvas, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Rodrigo Moynihan (1910 - 1990)
    Title
    Three Soldiers Shortly to Leave for an Officer Cadet Training Unit Playing Chess
    Date
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 56.00 cm, width: 69.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Presented via the Imperial War Museum, War Artists' Advisory Committee, April 1946
    Inscription
    none
    GAC number
    141