Ruins of San Clemente, Italy 1944

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in Leeds, Henry Marvell Carr studied at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. During the First World War he served in France in the Royal Field Artillery, and during the Second World War he worked as an Official War Artist in North Africa and Italy. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon from the early 1920s until his death in 1970. He also taught for a number of years at Beckenham Art School, where he was made head of the School. He wrote a treatise on portrait painting in 1952, and was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1956. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters made him a Fellow in 1948 and he was elected a Royal Academician in 1966.

Places

Italy, San Clemente

Subjects

jeep, motorcycle, lorry/truck, barrel, topography, WW2 art, townscape/cityscape, donkey, hill, soldier, World War II, signpost, street, ruin, tent/marquee, balcony

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), ink, watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Henry Marvell Carr (1894 - 1970)

Title

Ruins of San Clemente, Italy 1944

Date

1944

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 53.20 cm, width: 62.00 cm

Acquisition

Presented via the Imperial War Museum, War Artists' Advisory Committee, April 1946

Inscription

br: Henry M Carr / 44 ; verso tc: Ruins of San [unclear]

GAC number

181