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Richard Knott  Sketchbook War : Saving the Nation's Artists in
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to wishlist  The Sketchbook War: Saving the Nation's Artists in
World War II  During the Second World War, British artists
produced over 6,000 works of war art, but this is not a book
about art, rather the stories of nine courageous war artists who
ventured closer to the front line than any others in their
profession. Edward Ardizzone, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman,
Anthony Gross, Thomas Hennell, Eric Ravilious, Albert Richards,
Richard Seddon, and John Worsley all travelled abroad into the
dangers of war to chronicle events by painting them. They formed
a close bond, yet two were torpedoed, two were taken prisoner
and three died, two in 1945 when the war was nearly over. Men
who had previously made a comfortable living painting in studios
were transformed by milita