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Fred A Farrell: Glasgow's War Artist (Paperback)
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Fred A Farrell: Glasgow's War Artist (Paperback)
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Frederick Arthur Farrell (1882-1935) came from a distinguished
Glasgow family. He initially studied civil engineering, and as an
artist was self-taught, although he owes a debt to the advice and
example of Muirhead Bone. By the outbreak of World War I he was
developing a reputation as an up-and-coming etcher and
watercolourist of portraits and topographical subjects. He enlisted
as a sapper, or military engineer, with the Royal Engineers Railway
Troops Depot but was discharged from the Army due to ill health. In
December 1916, Farrell returned to the Front as a war artist,
attached for three weeks to the 15th, 16th and 17th Highland Light
Infantry in Flanders. In November 1917 he was in France, attached
for two months to the staff of the 51st (Highland) Division. In
between, authorized by the Minister of Munitions and Admiralty, and
supported by Glasgow's Lord Provost, Farrell drew the heroic home
effort of women in Glasgow's munitions factories, shipyards and
engineering works. As a former soldier, Farrell's sketches and
watercolours of the Front powerfully offer a landscape filtered
through personal experience and emotion. Battle scenes and
strategic deliberations are reconstructed, informed by first-hand
accounts. Many include portraits of actual soldiers. There are
poignant images of graves, devastated landscapes and destroyed
churches. However, there are also scenes of reconstruction and
renewed activity amid the desolation. He is at his most dynamic in
his drawings of the munitions factories which are full of noise,
light and movement. In these there is a sense of joy and energy in
industry and machinery, in patterning and design. The commission
Farrell received from the Corporation of Glasgow to produce 50
drawings of the front line and munitions factories in the city to
record the war for posterity was extraordinary. He was unique in
being the only war artist to be commissioned by a city rather than
by the government, Imperial War Museum or armed forces. Glasgow was
one of the first cities to recognize the importance of creating
such a memorial, rather than just creating images for propaganda
purposes.
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