1944
Oil on panel
102 x 228.5 cm
The Harris, Preston, Lancashire
Wartime All Works in Public Collections Figures on a Beach Panoramas Commissioned Works Umbrellas | Hats Works | 1940 to 1949 Bonfires | Flames | Smoke Night | Dusk Official War Artist Bicycles
Aka: D-Day, Reconstruction - Beach Landing; D-Day, Reconstruction (Beach Landing) [Art UK]; Beach Landing, centre panel from the D-Day triptych, 1944 [Bridgeman]; D-day [RE sales diary]
France Normandy Harris Museum & Art Gallery WW2 WWII World War 2 World War II army battle bicycle hat helmet men military parachutes sea soldiers troops war war artist wartimeCentral panel of a triptych. Full set shown in related images panel below.
Links to each entry:
- Battleships at Sea
- Beach Landing
- Bombed Cathedral
From the Richard Eurich interview by James Mellen done in 1978 for the Imperial War Museum "Artists in an Age of Conflict" series of sound recordings
". . . it’s very difficult to do a thing of D-Day. I made a sort of triptych of it. The centre portion is about 9 feet and depicts men running ashore on Normandy beach. And the side pictures which are smaller, though the depth is the same, depict a bombardment from the sea, the initial bombardment which covered the landing, and the one the other side is the destruction of Caen and places …From the Richard Eurich interview by James Mellen done in 1978 for the Imperial War Museum "Artists in an Age of Conflict" series of sound recordings
". . . it’s very difficult to do a thing of D-Day. I made a sort of triptych of it. The centre portion is about 9 feet and depicts men running ashore on Normandy beach. And the side pictures which are smaller, though the depth is the same, depict a bombardment from the sea, the initial bombardment which covered the landing, and the one the other side is the destruction of Caen and places like that, which had to be unfortunately, for the troops to make an advance and to liberate Paris.’
Also see Preparations for D-Day (1944)
See this article in the Guardian about cyclist soldiers.
D-Day, Reconstruction - Battleships at Sea (1944)
Image ©
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library, Preston
D-Day, Reconstruction - Bombed Cathedral (1944)
Image ©
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library, Preston
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