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Stephen Bone
Born(1904-11-13)13 November 1904
Chiswick, London, England
Died15 September 1958(1958-09-15) (aged 53)
London
EducationSlade School of Fine Art
Known forPainting, drawing
SpouseMary Adshead
ChildrenQuentin Bone

Stephen Bone (13 November 1904 – 15 September 1958)[1] was an English painter, writer, broadcaster and noted war artist. Bone achieved early success in book illustration using woodcuts before he turned to painting and art criticism.[2]

Early life

A British Camp near Skibotn, Norway (Art.IWM ARTLD 5336)
Mulberry Harbour
, Normandy (Art.IWM ARTLD 5445)

Stephen Bone was born in

Goupil Gallery, alongside Rodney Joseph Burn and Robin Guthrie, and in 1928 he painted a mural for the underground station at Piccadilly Circus.[5][6]

In 1929, Bone married the artist Mary Adshead, and they were to have two sons and a daughter.[7] The couple travelled extensively across Britain and Europe, which allowed Bone to paint outdoors in all weathers and to develop a style of bright landscape painting that proved popular and sold well at a number of gallery exhibitions.[5]

During the 1930s, Bone exhibited at the

Redfern Gallery and in 1936 exhibited a series of 41 paintings of British counties at the Ryman Gallery in Oxford.[6] During 1936 and 1937, he painted and exhibited in Stockholm.[6]

World War II

The Wreck of the Tirpitz, June 1945 (ART IWM LD 5441)

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Bone enlisted as an officer in the Civil Defence Camouflage Establishment based in Leamington Spa.

Courseulles after the invasion, and went on to record the assault on Walcheren Island in the Netherlands.[9][11] Toward the end of 1945, he travelled to Norway and painted the wreck of the Tirpitz.[11] In Norway, he also recorded captured naval bases and observed a number of mass graves of, mostly, Soviet prisoners of war.[12]

Later life

After the War, Bone found his style of painting somewhat out of fashion and, although he continued to paint, he found it difficult to get his work exhibited. He became an art critic for the

Glasgow Herald and did television and radio work for the BBC. With his wife, he wrote and illustrated children's books. Together they organised a mural painting course at Dartington.[6] In 1957, Bone was appointed the director of the Hornsey College of Art.[13] He died of cancer on 15 September 1958 at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.[5]

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ^ Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  2. ^ "Search the Collection: Stephen Bone". National Portrait Gallery (npg.org.uk). Retrieved 8 October 2013.
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    ISBN 1-85149-1082
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    ISBN 1-85149-106-6
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  5. ^
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    . Retrieved 9 October 2013. (subscription required)
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    ISBN 2-7000-3072-9
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  7. ^ Sally Hunter (7 September 1995). "Obituary: Mary Adshead". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
  8. ISBN 1-85149-134-1
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    ISBN 978-0-9930884-2-1
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  10. ^ National Museum of the Royal Navy (1 December 2013). "Britain's submarines in paintings". Art UK. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
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    ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3
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  12. ISBN 0-7181-2314-X
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  13. ISBN 0-95326-095-X
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