Shared Experience: Ordnance Depot
An anonymous typewritten note on the back of the original index card for this painting explains the dramatic imaginary scene depicted.
This is an attempt to produce the sensation of “all Hell breaking loose” which arises when trouble has begun in an ordnance depot. Things happen unpredictably, swiftly and emphatically. There is also the confusing effect of simultaneous explosives.
Affixed to the other side of the index card is a photograph of the (now lost) sketch from life on which Beament based this painting. Unlike the painting, the sketch depicts the destroyed landscape but no explosions.
Paintings
- Back home
Sali Herman - Paris liberated
Colin Colahan - Interior with flag
Grace Cossington Smith - A nursery-school for war workers' children
Elsie Hewland - In the Shelter
Edward Ardizzone - Wedding Reception At The Kit Cat Club, Apeldoorn, Holland
Molly Lamb Bobak - Flight from reason
Stella Bowen - Via Dolorosa, Ortona
Charles Comfort - Ordnance Depot
Harold Beament - Incendiaries in a suburb, 1941
Henry Carr - Bombed Houses, Caen, Normandy
Will Ogilvie - St Paul's 1941
Duncan Grant - The City: A fallen lift shaft
Graham Sutherland - A Camouflaged Runaway
Cedric Kennedy - Construction of a Runway at an Aerodrome
Alan Sorrell