Shared Experience: Night Target, Germany
Miller Brittain
Night Target, Germany
oil egg tempera on masonite
76.5 x 61.0cm
CWM 19710261-1436
Bomb aimer Brittain wrote to his parents in 1944: “The night attacks, although they are deadly, are very beautiful from our point of view. The target is like an enormous lighted Christmas tree twenty miles away but straight beneath one looks like pictures I have seen of the mouth of hell.” In a 1946 letter to them, he assessed this painting critically: “My target picture looks like the real thing they say, but I don’t like it yet as a picture. In fact at the moment, I feel like putting my foot though it.”
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