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Anglo Dutch

John Tunnard, 1942

IWM London, London
© Clody Norton John Tunnard Estate

Tunnard was an Auxiliary Coastguard in Cornwall during the Second World War and spent his hours on duty observing shipping passing through the English Channel. Anglo Dutch probably refers to a cargo ship or tanker. It is one of his most exquisitely Constructivist works, in which the majestic architectural shape that dominates the picture plane is overlaid with a passing cavalcade of transparent and mysterious forms; the abstract outline of a ship's rudder, weather dogs, signal masts and the triangles and dots of chart symbols. Extract from an article in the 2000 Art Fund Review by Angela Weight.

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Title of artwork, date

Anglo Dutch, 1942

Date supported

2000

Medium and material

Tempera and oil on board

Dimensions

65 x 95 cm

Grant

22000

Total cost

42000

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