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Author
Eric Ravilious  (1903–1942)  wikidata:Q1351572
 
Eric Ravilious
Alternative names
Eric William Ravilious
Description English painter, illustrator, wood engraver and graphic designer
Date of birth/death 22 July 1903 2 September 1942
Location of birth/death Acton Kaldadarnes, Iceland
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creator QS:P170,Q1351572
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Midnight Sun 1940 Eric Ravilious 1903-1942 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946

Ravilious was attached to the Admiralty with the honorary rank of Captain, Royal Marines from February 1940. Submarines in Dry Dock was probably painted at Chatham or Sheerness where he spent much of the first two months of his service as a war artist. Midnight Sun was painted shortly after, on a trip to Norway in a destroyer. Gallery label, September 2004

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05723
Date 1940
date QS:P571,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ravilious-midnight-sun-n05723

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