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Building Aircraft: Making the Engine by Christopher Nevinson

Building Aircraft: Making the Engine

Christopher Nevinson · 1912

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DETAILS
Artist
Christopher Nevinson
Date
1912
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions
[object Object]
Collection
Prints
Culture
England, 20th century
Credit line
Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
ART MOVEMENTS
Vorticism
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Christopher Nevinson

British war artist who brought Futurist dynamism to haunting images of WWI mechanized combat

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