Harry Blacker (Nero), The Night Watch: Guardroom at Poperinghe Barracks 1943, 1943

Harry Blacker (Nero) 1910-1999

The Night Watch: Guardroom at Poperinghe Barracks 1943, 1943

woodcut on paper

23.5 x 33 cm
framed: 44 x 59 x 2.7 cm

signed (lower right corner): 'Harry Blacker'

2016-23

Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Poperinghe Barracks is in Arborfield, Berkshire. During the Second World War, cartoonist Harry 'Nero' Blacker served as a sergeant in the Royal Artillery and taught signwriting to servicemen before they...

Provenance

presented by the artist

Exhibitions

2023 The Second World War on the Home Front (supporting A Brush with Evil II: Laura Knight at the Nuremberg Trial), Ben Uri Gallery

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