Author Description

"A companion publication to Jennifer Haworth's The art of war: New Zealand war artists in the field 1939-1945. It tells the story of New Zealand artists who served in World War 1. The two commissioned war artists, Wellingtonian Nugent Welch and ex-pat New Zealander George Butler, produced nearly 130 paintings of the Western Front. These are now in the National War Art collection in Wellington and most are reproduced in this book. Also included are the paintings Horace Moore-Jones completed on Gallipoli and the story of his painting "Simpson and his donkey". The book presents the work of soldier-artists such as Arthur Lloyd, George Woolley, John Weeks, Archibald Nicoll, Francis McCracken, Robert Johnson, James Turkington, William Penlington, W.H. Gummer and Walter Bowring, who painted the home front. Through the work of these artists the book tells the story of how New Zealand artists responded to the war"--Publisher's description.