Peter McIntyre, War Artist by Peter McIntyre. 1981 FIRST EDITION.

Peter McIntyre, War Artist by Peter McIntyre.

Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1981 FIRST EDITION.

Very good hardback with jacket, minor rubbing and bumping to edges, scuff to top of spine, minor marks, no inscriptions, binding firm, pages very good. Dustjacket has a little creasing and chipping at edges, with tear to back cover, minor marks. 240 pages. Dimensions: Oblong 285mm x 220mm. Numerous full colour and b&w illustrations.

"His studios were the trenches, the backs of trucks, the dust-filled mess tents of the desert; drawings and paintings were done hastily and were often left incomplete." "Peter McIntyre OBE (1910 1995) was a New Zealand painter and author, who was born in Dunedin and attended Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago. He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He worked as free-lance commercial artist in Britain, and married Lillian Welbourn. In 1939 he enlisted in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), in England, trained with the New Zealand Anti-Tank Battery (later numbered the 34th) at Aldershot, and served as an anti-tank gunner with the 2NZEF in Egypt, from April 1940. He was appointed the official New Zealand war artist and promoted to the rank of captain by Major General Bernard Freyberg in January 1941, recording the 2NZEF in Crete, North Africa and Italy.

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