[Battle scene in city]

Place Europe: Germany
Accession Number ART93163
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 21.0 x 28.0 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil and paper
Maker Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Place made Germany
Date made c. 1941-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Depicts an imaginative and stylised battle against the backdrop of an industrial city. Numerous tanks swarm the foreground of the work as they move over rubble created by the fighting. Industrial chimneys emit dark plumes of smoke into the air, creating a sombre atmosphere. The artist was a POW in Oflag 7B camp until its liberation in April 1945. While waiting for the approaching release, he may have created this work from what he imagined was occurring during the last months of the Second World War.

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