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"Up Housewives and at 'em!" Put out your paper, metal, bones.
They make planes, guns, tanks, ships & ammunition
Yates-Wilson
Date 1939-46
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Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Depicted person:
Reinhard Heydrich
[ 1904-1942 ]
c.1942
Medium oil on canva
Terence Cuneo (1907–1996)
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National Archives publish wartime propaganda in online gallery
13 June 2012
Hundreds of images of war art including posters
and a portrait of the future queen are released online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/13/national-archives-wartime-propaganda-gallery
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National Archives publish wartime propaganda
in online gallery
Hundreds of images of war art including posters
and a portrait of the future queen are released online
Wednesday 13 June 2012
15.01 BST
Guardian.co.uk
Maev Kennedy
This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 15.01 BST
on Wednesday 13 June 2012. It was last modified at 17.03 BST
on Wednesday 13 June 2012.
Winston Churchill with a jowl or two flatteringly removed, a
fierce group of women in pinnies marching out under the banner "Up housewives
and at 'em!" to recycle their domestic waste into "planes, guns, tanks, ships &
ammunition", and a startling image of the assassination in 1942 of a Nazi
officer are among hundreds of images of propaganda and war art from the National
Archives in a free Wikimedia online gallery launched this week.
Some were the work of famous artists recruited to help the war effort, including
Terence Cuneo, who in 1942 painted the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one
of the architects of the Holocaust, by a British-trained Czech and Slovak team.
Cuneo would go on to become the more tranquil official artist for the 1953
coronation, and coveted by collectors as a painter of railway scenes.
Alongside images of tank warfare and bombers picked out by flames or search
lights, and stern-faced military commanders in uniform, there are scores of more
domestic scenes, including many connected with the desperate need to increase
food production at a time of dire scarcity: a poster offers free transport and
accommodation to anyone willing to come and help dig potatoes. Dame Laura
Knight, famous as a member of the Newlyn School and as a painter of theatre and
ballet scenes, contributed many works, including a lyrical image of a land girl
stooping over a plough in a wintry field.
However many of the artists are now barely remembered, and some completely
forgotten. A pastel image from 1944, showing the then Princess Elizabeth in
uniform but as glamorous as any pin-up, is signed only "Tim".
The archive includes the original artwork for famous propaganda campaigns
including Dig For Victory, represented by a heroically patriotic toddler with
hoe and shovel, painted by Mary Tunbridge, and an airman being vamped by a sexy
blonde over the slogan "Keep mum – she's not so dumb", an image by an unknown
artist for the Careless Talk Costs Lives campaign.
The first 330 works launched this week are only the start of a project which
will eventually place several thousand images online. Some were drafts or never
used, and many of these have pencilled comments by the artists or the War
Office: a vivid scene by James Gardner of British bombers attacking a German
industrial complex has the withering and heavily underlined note in pencil "bomb
racks open from centre and not from side as in your sketch".
Jo Pugh, the education technical officer at the archives, said they wanted to
open the extraordinary work of sometimes obscure artists to the widest possible
audience. "They are an often overlooked part of Britain's war effort but their
themes resonate down the decades," he said.
National Archives publish wartime
propaganda in online gallery, G, 13.6.2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/13/national-archives-wartime-propaganda-gallery
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