George Tuckwell's Fighting Submarines For Published Book 'Fighting Ships' Original Illustration Art

Illustration art, one of a kind by George Tuckwell for his book, "Fighting Ships". Shows men on the deck of a submarine that has been blasted by another ship.

Reference: 206-20
Measures: 10 by 6.75 inches

Notations on front and back by Tuckwell regarding the placement of the original art, its size and other notations.

George Arthur Tuckwell, artist (1919-2000). Not much is known about the artist except the few works of art that have come to the market. It appears that he was also a book illustrator or worked on several books, including one titled "Fighting Ships" a story of the history of ships from the very early period to modern sea and air ships. This is a collection of George Tuckwell watercolors from that book. Tuckwell's draftsmanship of the ships are clean and well executed. His images of people follow his artistic lean toward the abstract. images for a book entitled Fighting Ships.
The period of the 1930s is epitomized by the conflict between several political ideologies, including Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism. Surrealism continued to dominate in Europe, and had influence worldwide. Artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in Mexico, worked to incorporate the ideas posed by Surrealism into their radical political philosophies, developing a new kind of magic realism. Artistic output in the United States was heavily impacted at the time by the Great Depression, and several artists took to focusing on ideas of humbleness and the ordinary man. For the first time in US history, artists began to delve into political subjects and attempted to use their art to impact society. Themes including poverty, lack of affordable housing, anti-lynching, anti-fascism, and workers' strikes were prevalent in many artists’ works. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government required urgent funds to implement the rapid industrialisation demanded by the first Five Year Plan. It initiated a secret strategy to sell off treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), including a preliminary list of two hundred and fifty rare paintings by the Old Masters, several of which ended up in the collection of Andrew Mellon via the New York based art dealing company, Knoedler. The decade took a threatening turn with the birth of National Socialism in Germany, followed by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. By the end of the decade, the Second World War had begun, which preoccupied both artists and the global population.
• Campbell held two further solo exhibitions at the Piccadilly Gallery in October 1958 and January 1960. Pilkington, who was friendly with Waddington arranged for Campbell to be included in the group exhibition ‘Painting of the 20th Century’ in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 1960. Dillon held his first solo show in London in 1967 at the Mercury Gallery. His Connemara images, ‘Fair Day, Clifden’, and ‘Next Stop, America’, had more appeal in America, where, in 1954, he had held a solo show at the Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco.
• Campbell also held a joint show with George Arthur Tuckwell (1919-2000) at the Piccadilly Gallery. (Catalogue untraced)
• painting by George Arthur Tuckwell (1919–2000), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford George Arthur Tuckwell WA1963.31 skull-142848
• painting by George Arthur Tuckwell (1919–2000), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford George Arthur Tuckwell WA2001.72 plant-abstract-142849
• Yachts, Tollesbury painting by George Tuckwell George Arthur Tuckwell 1960/8/1 https://collection.sarjeant.org.nz/objects/43792/yachts-tollesbury
• George Arthur Tuckwell was a British artist who was born in 1919. George Arthur Tuckwell's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 181 USD to 1,140 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,140 USD for Organic forms, sold at Sworders in 2020. The artist died in 2000. Artist's alternative names: George Tuckwell
• Artist Record Prices
The 2023 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for JUDAS.
The 2020 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Organic forms.
The 2016 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Ox Head
The 2014 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Hill Patterns
The 2011 record price for George Arthur Tuckwell was for Blakeny(sic), Norfolk."

Notes: Good condition with artist's notations front and back, see photos.

$25 - $50

10" x 0.1" x 6.75"

Fine Art, Works on Paper

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