War Pictures by British Artists Second Series Production

Original vintage book War Pictures By British Artists Second Series Production with an introduction by Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter. Features 50 plates with black and white paintings and drawings depicting factories, Civil Defence workers, manufacturing of ammunition and other things, wood processing, coal mining, paper making during World War II by artists, working under the official direction of the Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production on the recommendation of the Ministry of Information Artists' Advisory Committee: Henry Rushbury, R.A., R. V. Pitchforth, A.R.A., Francis Dodd, R.A., Ethel Gabain, Leslie Cole, Stanley Spencer, Vincent Lines, Thomas Hennell, Michael Ayrton, Ceri Richards, Graham Sutherland, F. E. Jackson, Charles Murray, Harold Bubb, Charles Cundall, A.R.A., Kenneth Rowntree, Henry Moore. Published by Oxford University Press, 63 pages. Good condition, creasing, staining.