Training Divers at Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 1944
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Gibraltar
City: Gibraltar
Place: Governor's Residence, The Convent
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About the artist
Roland Vivian Pitchforth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire and studied there and in Leeds up to 1915. After the First World War, he returned to Leeds, then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (RCA, 1921–1925). Until 1939 he taught at Camberwell and Clapham Schools of Art and the RCA. He joined the London Artists' Association and the London Group in the late 1920s. As an Official War Artist in the Second World War, Pitchforth worked for the Ministry of Information and Home Security, drawing RAF activities, boat yards, factories, control rooms and tanks. He witnessed the Burma campaign in the Far East in 1945, then briefly lived in South Africa. On his return, he taught art and became a Royal Academician (1953).
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Explore
- Places
- Mediterranean Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, Gibraltar, Spain
- Subjects
- steamship, ladder, water tank, diving, goggles, breathing apparatus, topography, WW2 art, seascape/coastal scene, bay, sea, man, military uniform, swimming costume, wristwatch, naval officer, sailor (navy), World War II, railing
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)
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Details
- Title
- Training Divers at Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 1944
- Date
- 1944
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- height: 51.50 cm, width: 64.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented via the Imperial War Museum, War Artists' Advisory Committee, April 1946
- Inscription
- bl: Pitchforth 44 ; verso, tc: Training Divers at Rosia Bay Gibraltar
- GAC number
- 165