C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946)

 

British artist C. R. W. Nevinson was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art. In 1912 he moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, and is reputed to have shared a studio there with Modigliani. Nevinson’s early encounter with the war occurred in 1914-16 when he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. Later, in 1917, he was appointed an official war artist and returned to France where he creatively approached his subjects by making sketches from the air in planes and observation balloons. The print of Nevinson’s War in the Air, reproduces his painting, now in the Canadian War Museum, of an aerial confrontation involving one of Canada’s most famous aviation heroes, Billy Bishop.

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