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Occupation. Artist. Norman Wilkinson CBE RI (24 November 1878 – 30 May 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War.
Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971) National Railway Museum. Oil and watercolour painter, printmaker and poster designer, born in Cambridge. Although early on he studied figure painting in Paris, further study with the river and coastal painter Louis Grier in Cornwall reinforced Wilkinson’s growing belief that he should concentrate on marine ...
series of transport posters painted by Norman Wilkinson of whom I had never heard. I have now researched him and this is his story. He was born in Cambridge and as a boy sang in the choir of St. Paul’s Catherdral. He attended Portsmouth College of Art and after graduation became a teacher there.
Jan 26, 2011 · Random fact of the day—a painting by the renowned railway poster artist Norman Wilkinson hung over the mantelpiece in the smoking room of the Titanic. Wilkinson, being an acquaintance of the captain, also had a tour of the ship before her tragic maiden voyage. In his autobiography, Wilkinson (1878-1971) claims to be “the father and mother ...
About the Artist. Norman WILKINSON (1878-1971) Painter in oil and watercolour, poster designer and printmaker, born in Cambridge. Although early on he studied figure painting in Paris, further study with the river and coastal painter Louis Grier in Cornwall reinforced Wilkinson’s growing belief that he should concentrate on marine subjects ...
Norman Wilkinson CBE RI was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War. Wilkinson was born in Cambridge, England, and attended ...
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He was knighted in 1948 and appointed a CBE in 1948. The artist created a painting titled “The Approach to Plymouth Harbour” for the smoking room of the RMS Titanic, which sank with the ship. One of the finest marine painters of this century, he is well represented in many public collections. Prolific and long-lived, Wilkinson led an active ...
