Brangwyn oorlog

Brangwyn was not an official war artist, although he produced over 80 poster designs during the first World War.  The compositions and details were based largely on his experience of the Messina earthquake which he saw in 1909 when visiting his friend R H Kitson in Sicily.  Such memories and sketches were supplemented by news agency photographs and the daily illustrations of destruction which appeared in The Times, together with loans of German and British uniforms and guns from the Imperial War Museum and the United States Naval Authorities.

A large proportion of Brangwyn’s work during this period was given free of charge to charitable groups, for example the Red Cross, National Institute for the Blind (St Dunstan’s Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors), Belgian and Allied Aid League and probably Orphelinat des Armees, an American charity in aid of a French Army Orphanage.


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Frank Brangwyn and the First World War @ William Morris Gallery | Books & Boots




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A beautiful collection of woodcuts by Frank Brangwyn, illustrating scenes of Belgium, accompanied by the words of Hugh Stokes. Rookebooks.

First edition.

In English with a preface in French by M. Paul Lambotte.

With black and white illustrations and red decoration to text.

Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper.