Not on display
- Artist
- Roland Vivian Pitchforth 1895–1982
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 571 × 787 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05721
Catalogue entry
N05721 GIBRALTAR HARBOUR WITH ESCORT GROUPS GOING TO SEA 1944
Inscr. ‘Pitchforth 44’ b.l.
Watercolour, 22 1/2×31 (57×79).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, R.A., October–November 1945 (557).
One of a number of watercolours painted at Gibraltar showing escorts under various weather conditions (letter from the artist, 25 November 1955).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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