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
framed: 44 x 59 x 2.7 cm
signed (lower right corner): 'Harry Blacker'
2016-23
© Harry Blacker (Nero) estate
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...
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 were demobbed. His woodcuts from this period show humour, an eye for detail and a decisive use of line.
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presented by the artistExhibitions
2023 The Second World War on the Home Front (supporting A Brush with Evil II: Laura Knight at the Nuremberg Trial), Ben Uri GalleryBe the first to know – Sign Up
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