tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post6202502435240897681..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Who Painted This? #41Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-21067500462640060802013-08-25T13:17:14.498+00:002013-08-25T13:17:14.498+00:00Hi Katherine,
Title of the artwork: Preparations ...Hi Katherine,<br /><br />Title of the artwork: Preparations for D-Day<br />Name of the artist: Richard Ernst Eurich<br />Date it was created: 1944<br />Media used: Oil on canvas <br />Where it lives now: Imperial War Museum<br />How do I know all this: I tried a number of different searches before a search for “painting beachhead d-day” in Google images returned a link to the painting on the Imperial War Museums’ D Day page. This was a bit of good fortune because it is not a painting of a beachhead. The details are from the Imperial War Museums’ collections page. Is the answer to where it lives now sufficient? I assume it is in the Imperial War Museum in London, but I don’t know for sure.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Mark<br />Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04006953027350082391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-89037781193051732132013-08-24T21:33:44.338+00:002013-08-24T21:33:44.338+00:00Did take a while as I had no idea who the artist w...Did take a while as I had no idea who the artist was and looked up Official war Artists but turns out this artist is not listed on the wiki page. <br />Looked up the Imperial War Museum website as I suspected it was connected to a significant event. I could have got the answer every quickly if I had searched the site properly. But it was late Friday evening, the tv with husband beckoned, we watch one program a night together.<br />Today I started with the same search terms I started with and came up with nothing. Putting painting into Google images means nothing! Then I thought the significant dates that ended WW2, first VE day but then I remembered the actual invasion was D day. Success :)<br /><br />Title: preparations for D Day<br />Artist: Richard Ernst Eurich<br />part of the War Artists Advisory Committee Commission<br />Date 1944<br />Material: Oil on canvas <br />Imperial War Museum, London<br /><br />Again, a great challenge and I enjoyed looking at his other work on a website associated with his family. However, this painting is not on it. Also an interesting interview with him on the Imperial War Musuem sitejacqui boyd aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088700896864263856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-55504610596738882502013-08-24T19:16:42.773+00:002013-08-24T19:16:42.773+00:00Richard eurich
Richard eurich<br />michael johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04099369751936855985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-1387786717929346342013-08-24T19:15:09.662+00:002013-08-24T19:15:09.662+00:00it is by the wonderful Richard Eurich
it is by the wonderful Richard Eurich<br /><br />michael johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04099369751936855985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-81764970833010343502013-08-24T19:13:56.358+00:002013-08-24T19:13:56.358+00:00by the wonderful Richard Eurichby the wonderful Richard Eurichmichael johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04099369751936855985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-19723054091878482092013-08-24T09:52:28.156+00:002013-08-24T09:52:28.156+00:00Preparation For D Day
by Richard Ernst Eurich RA...Preparation For D Day<br />by Richard Ernst Eurich RA 1944<br />oil on canvas<br />Imperial War Museum<br />We thought it was a WW2 painting but quite hard to make sense of so got this up on the TV screen to see it larger. Could see tanks one with a cross and the opening to a large ship<br />I searched a few WW2 artists, got nowhere then thought of the Imperial War Museum.<br />Mr C did that search and came up trumps with the image.<br />Googled Imperial War Museum, keywords top right paintings then to Category Art<br />subject period Second World War, chose option Operation Overlord and there it was first on the list.Colours and Textureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12792990102218724187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-16356848823048361692013-08-24T09:01:27.328+00:002013-08-24T09:01:27.328+00:00I Got it! (I better be first this time!)
I kept se...I Got it! (I better be first this time!)<br />I kept searching with Google search words 'war artists normandy' and arrived at Imperial War Museums website <br /><br />Here is the link to a larger image (Wikimedia Commons, Google Cultural Institute) which is a fascinating painting.<br />http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/preparations-for-d-day/6QFUdXFNyo5A4g?projectId=art-project<br /><br />Here is the link to the artwork where a description of the painting and what is called a 'Label' (further description).<br />http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/8759<br />An excerpt from the label, as it relates to the artists' wartime style, which would have been too long for comments here:<br /><br />"His wartime style has been compared to the sixteenth century Flemish painter Pieter Breughel whose work shows a similar attention to distant detail and purposeful activities. Indeed, the gaping ship’s doors seem to echo Breughel’s Mouth of Hell, making a visual equation between war and hell which agrees with Eurich’s Quaker background and beliefs."<br /><br />Title: "Preparations for D-Day"<br />Artist: Richard Ernst Eurich (RA)<br />Medium: oil on canvas<br />Date: 1944<br />Location: Imperial War Museums, Southampton Water, Hampshire, England, UKDavid Teterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747334525619423349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-40310751434236349282013-08-23T23:19:19.222+00:002013-08-23T23:19:19.222+00:00This I think, looks familiar, or at least the arti...This I think, looks familiar, or at least the artist if not the actual artwork.<br />I can tell it is from WWII so I am looking for war artists…<br /><br />Started with war artists/art and Normandy.<br />We have the ocean, I suppose the English Channel, an Island, and what looks like an invasion flotilla, dirigibles, tanks, tents… the smoke mystifies me… camouflage?<br /><br />Anyhow… I am discovering some other great artists along the way, or maybe I'm getting sidetracked again, so If I don't figure this out all is not lost!<br /><br />One artist I discovered I would consider an UNKNOWN MASTER.<br />His graphic works and drawings are stunning.<br />The artist, Sir Muirhead Bone<br /><br />There's the big names of art history then there are these other treasures.<br /><br />Still looking, but I may never get to the answer if I keep taking these side roads!David Teterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747334525619423349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-12808493333150009512013-08-23T21:33:12.379+00:002013-08-23T21:33:12.379+00:00Hi Katherine
From my research Who Painted This? #...Hi Katherine<br /><br />From my research Who Painted This? #41 is called Preparations for D-Day<br />by Richard Ernst Eurich. The painting created in 1944 is in the collection of the IWM (Imperial War Museums).<br />It is an oil on canvas, dimensions 76.2 cm x 127 cm. <br /><br />The image looked like D Day in WWII and it looked like they were disembarking. I found it in google images where it took me to IWM and when I hovered on the image I got the details.<br /><br />Kind regards<br />John O'Grady Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347585186857349484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-8742886469856985672013-08-23T21:25:54.847+00:002013-08-23T21:25:54.847+00:00Artist.... Richard Ernst Eurich
Title....Preparati...Artist.... Richard Ernst Eurich<br />Title....Preparations for D-Day<br />Date....1944<br />Where it is... . Imperial War Museum<br />Medium... Oil on Canvas<br />How I found it... After quite a lot of going through Wikimedia and Google I tried the Google art Project ( I thought your comment on unhelpful websites might refer to one of the big ones ). I typed in war paintings and got the image and most of the details, no luck with the medium on Wikimedia , tried googling the artist`s name, got the image on one of those "reproductions on canvas "sites which led me to the medium. It looks like great painting, I`m delighted to have come across another interesting artist who is new to me .<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-41200463488535197952013-08-23T21:10:51.758+00:002013-08-23T21:10:51.758+00:00Title-D Day
Artist-Richard Eurich
Medium-Oil on Ca...Title-D Day<br />Artist-Richard Eurich<br />Medium-Oil on Canvas<br />Date-1944<br />Current location-Imperial War Museum London<br /><br />How I found this-After looking closely at the painting a realized that in the foreground it depicted 2 ships off loading tanks.After research I found that such ships were used only a few times but that one such time was D Day.I can't really seem to confirm where the painting is but is is late and gotta go to bed.Roger Brown Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787662831366768403noreply@blogger.com