Below are examples mostly of his marine and naval paintings. Unless he was commissioned to feature a particular ship, his sea paintings featured a lot of water and sky, whereas ships, land and other objects usually occupied small amounts of art canvas real estate. That seems sensible, given the visual vastness of oceans and seas -- something Wilkinson was intimately familiar with, having served in the Royal Navy.
This exhibits a poster style, but I don't know if it was actually used for a poster.
A contrasting, more painterly style.
This is an illustration.
The sky is vast and the Harts are small.
Nowadays, pilot boats are usually a lot bigger and fancier than this.
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This is a poster illustration for the London and North Western Railway. I include it here because the style is closer to his marine paintings than the style he usually used for posters.
This has a poster-like style. Lion was Admiral Beatty's flagship at Dogger Bank and Jutland. I'm guessing that this painting shows Lion on the way to her 1924 scrapping.
Thanks to her high speed, the Queen Mary was in little danger of being torpedoed by a German submarine. Her companion Queen Elizabeth went straight to troopship duties before ever carrying commercial passengers.
The commerce-raider Graff Spee was a heavily armed large cruiser (and not really a "pocket battleship," as she was called at the time). She was finally hunted down by three British cruisers and damaged to the point where her captain had her scuttled.
I'm sorry to say that the next coronation review probably won't be as impressive as this one was.
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Fitting Out RMS Queen Mary at Clydebank (1936) is impressively detailed and historically important, but the two I actually prefer are The Pilot and the very atmospheric Isle of Wight.
my father..born1919...worked on Queen Mary...
My art master at senior school was, himself, tutored by Norman Wilkinson, so I've been totally enamoured of NW's work since the age of 11 or 12.
It was one of NW's works, "Entry into Plymouth Harbour" which hung above the fireplace in the 1st class lounge of RMS Titanic. In 1996, Wilkinson's son, Rodney, completed a recreation using his father's original sketches. Unfortunately, Rodney's style bears little of his father's atmospheric deftness, but it's a noble effort, nonetheless.
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