PT2872

Beaches and harbour, Normandy 1944 Long Caption: Freedman worked as a signwriter and a stonemason's and architect's assistant before studying art. Between 1930 and 1940 he was instructor in still life at the Royal College of art and, from 1940-46, he served as an official war artist while a captain in the Royal Marines. Although a figurative artist he is best known for his revival of colour lithography and book illustration. This is a working drawing for a large oil painting of the Mulberry artificial harbour at Arromanches, Normandy, now in the Imperial War Museum. Credit line: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Object: PAJ2872 Artist: Barnett Freedman Date: 1944 Medium: watercolour Size: Image: 735 x 1440 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.