AN ENGLISH CUBIST
WILLIAM ROBERTS:
Women Railway Porters in Wartime
Image: IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1701). Catalogue information based on the catalogue raisonné by David Cleall. For this and full details of the exhibitions cited, see the links below. Any auction prices quoted may not include all fees and taxes, such as VAT and Artist's Resale Right charges.
Women Railway Porters in Wartime, c.1943 (commissioned 1941)
Watercolour, 37.1 cm x 51.6 cm
One of three pictures on transport-related subjects commissioned for £25 each by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in August 1941. A Station Scene in Wartime was also completed , but a proposed dock subject was abandoned after an abortive trip to Hull was curtailed because of teaching commitments (correspondence in Roberts’s file in section GP/55/2 of the War Artists’ Archive, Imperial War Museum, London).
PROVENANCE: Imperial War Museum (LD1701)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Whitechapel Gallery 1952, Leeds/Ben Uri Gallery 2003
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