Shared Experience: A Crater in the Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong
Leonard Rosoman OBE RA
A Crater in the Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong
oil
54.6 x 74.9cm
IWM ART LD 5650
The crater in the dockside has exposed the wooden structure underneath, and the metal cables within the concrete. The effect is to create, appropriately, a tentacled sea creature from the destruction that contrasts with the calm restored order of the junk boats in the harbour. Rosoman travelled with British Pacific Fleet to Australia and from there visited Hong Kong, where the landscape and the post-liberation mood on the island greatly appealed to him.
Paintings
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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