Norman Wilkinson (artist)

[1][2] It was mostly owing to his fascination with the sea that he travelled extensively to such locations as Spain, Germany, Italy, Malta, Greece, Aden, the Bahamas, the United States, Canada and Brazil.[3] During the First World War, while serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he was assigned to submarine patrols in the Dardanelles, Gallipoli and Gibraltar, and, beginning in 1917, to a minesweeping operation at HMNB Devonport.[4] After initial testing, Wilkinson's plan was adopted by the British Admiralty, and he was placed in charge of a naval camouflage unit, housed in basement studios at the Royal Academy of Arts.Wilkinson was assigned to Washington, D.C. for a month in early 1918, where he served as a consultant to the U.S. Navy, in connection with its establishment of a comparable unit (headed by Harold Van Buskirk, Everett Warner, and Loyd A.When Wilkinson applied for credit to the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, he was challenged by several others, especially the zoologist John Graham Kerr, who had developed a disruptive camouflage paint scheme earlier in the war.[10] During the Second World War, Norman Wilkinson was again assigned to camouflage, not in dazzle-painting ships (which had fallen out of favour) but with the British Air Ministry, where his primary responsibility was the concealment of airfields.
Wilkinson's illustration of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania from The Illustrated London News
A painting by Wilkinson of a convoy with his invention of dazzle painting , 1918
A Monitor with 14-inch Guns Shelling Yeni Sher Village and the Asiatic Batteries in the Dardanelles , in the First World War
A Few Careless Words May End in this , Government poster of the Second World War
Loss of HMS Aboukir
dazzle camouflageCambridgewatercoloursdrypointmarine painterillustratordazzle paintingFirst World WarBerkhamsted SchoolHertfordshireSt. Paul's Cathedral Choir SchoolPortsmouthCornwallSouthseasinking of the RMS LusitaniaThe Illustrated London NewsLondon and North Western RailwaySouthern RailwayLondon Midland and Scottish RailwayBahamas1948 Summer OlympicsRoyal Naval Volunteer ReservesubmarineDardanellesGallipoliGibraltarHMNB DevonportGerman submarinestorpedoperiscopeBritish AdmiraltyRoyal Academy of ArtscamoufleursVorticistEdward WadsworthHarold Van BuskirkEverett WarnerLoyd A. JonesRoyal Commission on Awards to InventorsJohn Graham Kerrdisruptive camouflageSecond World WarAir MinistryNational GalleryD-Day landingsHMS JervisBismarckWar Artists' Advisory CommitteeRoyal Institute of Painters in Water ColoursRoyal Yacht SquadronRoyal Society of British ArtistsRoyal Institute of Oil PaintersRoyal Society of Marine ArtistsRoyal Scottish Society of Painters in WatercolourOrder of the British Empire1918 New Year Honours1948 Birthday HonoursOrder of the CrownNational Maritime MuseumFine Art SocietyGlasgow Institute of the Fine ArtsWalker Art GalleryRoyal Society of Artists, BirminghamBeaux Arts GalleryImperial War MuseumRMS Titanicwhen the ship went downRMS OlympicA Night to RememberTitanicRoyal Birmingham Society of ArtistsConnell & Sons GalleryGrosvenor GalleryWalker Art Gallery, LiverpoolLeicester GalleriesNew GalleryRoyal AcademyThe TimesThe London GazetteThe IndependentBehrens, Roy R.Encyclopædia BritannicaArt UKLucien-Victor Guirand de ScévolaJean-Louis ForainLouis GuingotPaul KleeFranz MarcAlister HardyAndré MareKimon NicolaïdesSolomon Joseph SolomonAbbott Handerson ThayerMaximilian TochLeon UnderwoodTony AyrtonGeoffrey BarkasHugh CassonJohn CodnerBainbridge CopnallHugh B. CottVictorine FootFrederick GoreStanley William HayterIvan KonevJasper MaskelyneOliver MesselColin MossRoland PenrosePeter ProudFred PuseyBrian RobbPeter ScottEdward SeagoAlan SorrellBasil SpenceSteven SykesErnest TownsendJulian TrevelyanWilfred Clement Von Berg