- Artist
- Frances Macdonald 1914–2002
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 561 × 1220 × 17 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05705
Catalogue entry
N05705 BUILDING THE MULBERRY HARBOUR, LONDON DOCKS 1944
Inscr. ‘Frances Macdonald, March 44’ b.r.
Canvas, 22×48 (56×122).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh:National War Pictures, R.A., October–November 1945 (277), as ‘The Docks’.
The Mulberry Harbour was used in the invasion of France in June 1944.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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