Carleton University Art Gallery

Art Galery

For the course of the warfare Myra Hess and other musicians, such as Moura Lympany, gave day by day lunch-time recitals within the empty constructing in Trafalgar Square, to raise public morale as every live performance corridor in London was closed. Art exhibitions were held on the gallery as a complement to the recitals. Exhibitions of work by warfare artists, including Paul Nash, Henry Moore and Stanley Spencer, were Picture of Arts additionally held; the War Artists’ Advisory Committee had been set up by Clark in order “to keep artists at work on any pretext”. In 1941, a request from …