Shared Experience: Before Zero Hour
Alex Colville
Before Zero Hour
watercolour on paper
38.8 x 57.3cm
CWM 19710261-2031
“I arose at 0500 hours on 8 February,” noted Colville in his official monthly report, “and I watched medium guns firing the barrage that preceded Operation Veritable [part of the battle for Normandy]. I returned to this spot after breakfast, when it was light, and made studies. The rest of the day I spent painting Before Zero Hour, a nocturne.”
Paintings
- Battle of Britain
Paul Nash - Burma - 14th Army: the battle of the Sittang Bend. Men of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment making an armed patrol
Leslie Cole - HMS Ark Royal in Action
Eric Ravilious - A Parachute Bomb
Matvyn Wright - Before Zero Hour
Alex Colville - Greece
Lyndon Dadswell - H.M.A.S. Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942
Murray Griffin - Night Target, Germany
Miller Brittain - Night Air Raid
Charles Comfort - Light Coastal Forces Blow Up An Enemy Merchantman
Richard Eurich - Wreckage On Beach Near Newhaven, England
Michael Forster - A Crater in the Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong
Leonard Rosoman - Submarine Pens At Brest
Michael Forster - Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
Donald Friend - Shattered Landscape, Cleve
Alex Colville - Central Square, Tobruk
Ivor Hele - Wrecked ME 210
Charles Comfort - Home Again
Miller Brittain - Troops in back of truck, Libya
Ivor Hele - Hitler Line
Charles Comfort