Shared Experience: Art and War

Corvette Galley

Leonard Brooks
Corvette Galley
oil on paper
30.1 x 39.6cm
CWM 19710261-1081

In a 1997 interview, Brooks explained his working methods:

Our terms of reference were to interpret as we could or make sketches. We could wander around and do anything. Being on board a ship sometimes there’s not that much to paint … I’d go down to where they were cooking.