RECORDING THE WAR
PEN AND PAINT BRUSH
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 16, 12.30 p.m.) I LONDON, December 15. The Minister of Information, Lord Macmillan, announced today the appointment of an advisory committee under the chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Clark, rector of the National Gallery, to draw up a panel of artists to record the war at home and abroad and advise on necessary arrangements, in co-operation with service departments. Members of the committee are Sir Walter Russell, Keeper of the Tate Gallery, Sir Muirhead Bone, and' Mr. P. H. Jowett. Sir Muirhead Bone's name recalls a similar enterprise during the last "war in which he took an active part, drawings he made in France being published in 1916 in a volume entitled "Western Front," which contained many now famous drawings. His work and that of other artists representing' every phase of wartime activity were later brought together in' a permanent collection at the Imperial War Museum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1939, Page 13
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157RECORDING THE WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1939, Page 13
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