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Paintings in the Imperial War Museum (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Collection of the Imperial War Museum" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum.It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of the United Kingdom and its Empire during the First World War.
When the committee was dissolved in December 1945 its collection consisted of 5,570 works of art produced by over four hundred artists. [1] This collection was then distributed to museums and institutions in Britain and around the world, with over half of the collection, some 3,000 works, going to the Imperial War Museum.
Although the architect Charles Holden completed a design for the building, the plan was abandoned and those artworks that had been completed, along with works donated by Muirhead Bone, William Orpen and Sir John Lavery were incorporated into the art collection that was part of the establishment of the Imperial War Museum. [2] [3]
Google Arts & Culture works in Imperial War Museums (14 F) Pages in category "Paintings in the Imperial War Museum" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The work is a set of 155 sheets of stamps, each sheet commemorating a soldier who was killed in the Iraq War between 2003 and 2008. The work was a co-commission between the Manchester International Festival and the Imperial War Museum.
To this end younger artists, including Stanley Spencer and Wyndham Lewis, were commissioned by the BWMC to produce a series of large artworks, After the War, when the BWMC was wound up, this series of artworks, which included The Menin Road by Paul Nash and Gassed by John Singer Sargent, became part of the Imperial War Museum collection. [8]
Collection of the Imperial War Museum (2 C, 14 P) D. ... Pages in category "Imperial War Museum" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.