A war artist captures the experience of war in an artistic manner whilst based in the battlefield. Unlike war poets, a war artist is almost always acting in an official capacity.

Famous war artists

Australian

• First World War
  • George Lambert
  • Arthur Streeton
  • A Henry Fullwood
  • James Quinn
• Second World War
  • Stella Bowen
  • William Dargie
  • Donald Friend
  • Nora Heysen
  • Ivor Hele
  • Sali Herman
• Recent conflicts
  • Rick Amor (East Timor Peacekeeping)
  • Wendy Sharpe (East Timor Peacekeeping)
  • Peter Churcher (2002 War on Terrorism)
  • Lewis Miller (Iraq War 2003)
  • George Gittoes

British

• Neville Lewis
• Fortunino Matania (Italian artist working in Britain)
• Paul Nash
• Mervyn Peake
• Austin Osman Spare
• Stanley Spencer
• Edward Bawden

Canadian

• First World War
  • Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974)
  • Frederick Varley
  • Kenneth Forbes
  • Maurice Cullen
  • Arthur Lismer
  • C.W. Jefferys
• Second World War
  • Thomas Harold Beament (1898-1985)
  • Alan Brockman Beddoe (1893-1975)
  • Bruno Jacob Boback (1923-)
  • Molly Lamb Boback (1922-)
  • Frank Leonard Brooks (1911-)
  • David Alexander Colville (1920-)
  • Charles Fraser Comfort (1900-1994)
  • Francis Michael Forster (1908-)
  • Paul Alexander Goranson (1911-2002)
  • Lawren Harris (1910-1994)
  • Charles Anthony Francis Law (1916-1996)
  • Donald Cameron MacKay (1906-1979)
  • Rowley Walter Murphy (1892-1973)
  • Jack Nichols (1921-)
  • William Abernethy Ogilvie (1901-1989)
  • George Douglas Pepper (1903-1962)
  • George Campbell Tinning (1910-1996)
  • Thomas Charles Wood (1913-1997)
• Korean War (unofficial)
  • Edward "Ted" Fenwick Zuber (1932-)
• Gulf War
  • Edward "Ted" Fenwick Zuber (1932-)

Japan

• Tsuguharu Foujita

New Zealand

• Peter McIntyre (1910-1995)
• James Boswell (Artist) 1906-1971

Spain

• Francisco de Goya. Los Desatres de la Guerra

See also

• War photography

References

• Canadian artists: Library and Archives Canada
• Australian official war artists

War artists