Shared Experience: Via Dolorosa, Ortona
Soldiers of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade fight their way through the streets of Ortona towards the Piazza San Tommaso, late in December 1943. In his 1956 memoir, Comfort wrote of his first response to seeing the destruction of Ortona: “One felt a choking claustrophobia in the place. Everywhere was misery, death, and destruction. I could not possibly paint, or even sketch, on that first dreadful visit.”
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