The British Museum Reading Room, May 1907, 1907, Tate Gallery.

A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber,, 1916, Tate Gallery.

Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 - 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher, drypoint and watercolour artist. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 505 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (505 × 512 pixel, file size: 50 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photograph of The British Museum Reading Room, May 1907, Drawing on paper, 1907 by Muirhead Bone. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 505 × 512 pixelsFull resolution (505 × 512 pixel, file size: 50 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photograph of The British Museum Reading Room, May 1907, Drawing on paper, 1907 by Muirhead Bone. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 512 × 354 pixelsFull resolution (512 × 354 pixel, file size: 29 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photograph of A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber, Drawing and watercolour on paper, 1916... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 512 × 354 pixelsFull resolution (512 × 354 pixel, file size: 29 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photograph of A View in Flanders behind the Lines, Showing Locre and the Tops of Dug-Outs on the Scherpenber, Drawing and watercolour on paper, 1916... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (83rd in leap years). ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots3 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  -  First Minister Jack McConnell... Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. ... Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (typically copper, zinc, or plexiglas) by scratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal point. ... Carl Larsson, Crayfishing, watercolor, 1897. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ...

The son of a printer, Bone was born in Glasgow and trained initially as an architect, later going on to study art at Glasgow School of Art. He began printmaking in 1898, and although his first known print was a lithograph, he is better known for his etchings and drypoints. His subject matter was principally related to landscapes, architecture (which often focussed on urban construction and demolition sites) and industry. Glaswegian redirects here. ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... 194. ... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Lithography stone and mirror-image print of a map of Munich. ... In large construction projects, such as skyscrapers, cranes are essential. ... Demolition of the Old Myer Building, Perth, Western Australia. ...

In 1901 he moved to London, where he met William Strang, Dugald MacColl and Alphonse Legros, and later became a member of the New English Art Club. After the outbreak of the First World War, Charles Masterman, head of the British War Propaganda Bureau and acting on the advice of William Rothenstein, appointed Bone as Britain's first official war artist in May 1916. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... William Strang (February 3, 1859 - 1921) was a Scottish painter and engraver. ... On the Terrace, 1922. ... Alphonse Legros (May 8, 1837 - December 8, 1911), painter and etcher, was born at Dijon. ... The New English Art Club was founded in London in 1885 as an alternate venue to the Royal Academy. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman (October 25, 1874-November 17, 1927) was a British Liberal politician and journalist. ... William Rothenstein (1872 - 1945) was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art. ... Vasily Vereshchagin. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Commissioned as an honorary Second Lieutenant, he arrived in France during the Battle of the Somme, serving with the Allied forces on the Western Front and also with the Royal Navy for a time. He produced 150 drawings of the war, returning to England in October of that year. Over the next few months Bone returned to his earlier subject matter, drawing pictures of shipyards and battleships. He visited France again in 1917 where he took particular interest in the ruined towns and villages. Second Lieutenant is the lowest commissioned rank in many armed forces. ... Combatants British Empire Australia Canada New Zealand Newfoundland South Africa United Kingdom France German Empire Commanders Douglas Haig Joseph Joffre Max von Gallwitz Fritz von Below Strength 13 British & 11 French divisions (initial) 51 British and 48 French divisions (final) 10. ... Look up ally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West. ... The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore the Senior Service). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Rocky landscape with ruins, by Nicolaes Berchem, ca. ...

After the Armistice, Bone returned to the type of works he produced before the war, and was influential in promoting fellow war artists William Orpen and Wyndham Lewis. He began to undertake extensive foreign travels which increasingly influenced his work. In 1923 he produced three portraits of the novelist Joseph Conrad during an Atlantic crossing. In the inter-war period he exhibited extensively in London and New York, building up a considerable reputation. He received a knighthood in 1937, and served again as official war artist in the Second World War from 1940. Self Portrait, circa 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... Wyndham Lewis in 1916 Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian born British painter and author. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Joseph Conrad. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Sir Muirhead Bone died in 1953 in Oxford. This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

External links

• Sir Muirhead Bone at artcyclopedia.com