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Camouflage Painting

 

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"Camouflage is no mystery and no joke. It is a matter of life and death - of victory or defeat." Roland Penrose

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  • Camouflage Factory 1943, watercolour (IBCMG)
  • Testing Mortars 1943, ink & gouache
  • Sea Shore with Fortifications 1943, watercolour (IWM)
  • Foot Soldier c.1980, oil
  • The Big Tower, Camouflaged 1943, watercolour (IWM)
  • Sketch for Fighting Patrol 1943, 1980s, ink & brush
  • Bombing Range 1943, ink & wash
  • Moonlight Over the Third Reich 1982, oil

From 1939 to 1941, Colin Moss was one of over a hundred and fifty artists employed with the Air Ministry in the camouflage directorate based in the Midlands.

In 1943, the Ministry of Home Security gave all its artists a month's paid leave to produce paintings of the camouflage jobs they had worked on. The artists were paid £2 for each painting they produced. Colin later submitted some of these works to the War Artists Advisory Committee, and they are now in the Imperial War Museum.

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