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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.
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 ...
Wilkinson's dazzling idea. In 1917, on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain, the artist and illustrator Norman Wilkinson had a brainwave. As a Royal Navy volunteer in World War One ...
Norman Wilkinson, CBE, SMA, PRWS, RI British, 1878-1971. 'Study for the L.M.S. poster The ‘Coronation Scot’ Ascending Shap Fell, Cumbria, 1937'. Norman Wilkinson was born in Cambridge in 1878 and educated at Berkhamsted School and St Paul’s Cathedral Choir School, before studying painting in Paris and at Southsea School of Art.
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 ...
Nov 9, 2022 · Norman Wilkinson, on the other hand, saved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men. During the First World War, Wilkinson (1878-1971) was a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. His experience was widespread – he served in the Dardanelles, on a minesweeper in the English Channel and on anti-submarine patrols in the Mediterranean.
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Nov 6, 2023 · Left: Norman Wilkinson, Golf in Northern Ireland, circa 1925. Sold November 2007 for $19,200. Although his posters generally do not depict people, by far the most popular and expensive of his posters are those that depict golf scenes. The highest price paid for a Wilkinson poster was $19,200, achieved in 2007 for Golf In Northern Ireland, 1925.
