Shared Experience: Flight from reason

Art and War

• Introduction
• Battle
• Work
• Leisure
• Service
• Casualties
• Captivity
• Home
• Artists

Even before her appointment as an official war artist, Bowen was interested in painting the devastation wrought on London by the German bombing raids. Her personal preoccupation with home as a sanctuary drew her to sights of destruction. In 1941 London was bombed extensively; the ruins in Flight from reason were located opposite the Inner Temple Church. The two sculptural forms depict John Hiccocks (reclining) and Samuel Mead (in relief).

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