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George Clausen
Making Guns: The Great Hammer (from The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals), 1917
English Impressionist painter George Clausen, a prominent member of the Royal Academy of Art, became an official War Artist at age sixty-five. In March 1918, the Ministry of Information, the British government's centralized propaganda agency, commissioned twelve printmakers to represent the diverse patriotic activities of British soldiers and civilians for the portfolio Efforts and Ideals.
Making Guns, Clausen's six-print series for Efforts, depicts munitions factory workers assembling large field guns. Together, the imposing radial crane and industrial steam hammer herald the monumental scale and complexity of mechanized warfare. |