Shared Experience: Incendiaries in a suburb, 1941
Workers surround a fallen tree and civilians put out fires in the street, and in the distance industrial sites are ablaze. This is a jarring image, as the ordered life of the suburbs is threatened – street lighting is replaced by fires and quiet living by rapid action – and the city that sustains them is destroyed. The sense of urgency is heightened by Carr’s rapid brush strokes and scratching of the paint surface.
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