{{Short description|Unbuilt War Memorial in London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{about|the war memorial project in the United Kingdom|the memorial complex in Kyiv|Hall of Remembrance, Kyiv}} The '''Hall of Remembrance''' was a series of paintings and sculptures commissioned, in 1918, by the British War Memorials Committee of the British Ministry of Information in commemoration of the dead of World War I.
==History== [[File:Spencer, Stanley (Sir) (RA) - Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|''Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing-Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916'' by Stanley Spencer]] The artworks commissioned for the Hall of Remembrance were to be devoted to 'fighting subjects, home subjects and the war at sea and in the air' and were to be displayed in a specially built structure. The building was to be designed to accommodate a series of paintings based upon the dimensions of the large triptych, ''The Battle of San Romano'' by Paolo Uccello, one part of which is now in the National Gallery.<ref name="guard">{{cite web |date= 13 November 2008|url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/13/gassed-john-singer-sargent#|title = 'Gassed', by John Singer Sargent|work = The Guardian| access-date = 11 February 2014}}</ref> The scheme was initiated by Lord Beaverbrook, the then Minister of Information and echoed the scale of a war art programme he had launched for the government of Canada. Although the architect Charles Holden completed a design for the building, the plan was abandoned and those artworks that had been completed, along with works donated by Muirhead Bone, William Orpen and Sir John Lavery were incorporated into the art collection that was part of the establishment of the Imperial War Museum.<ref name="WW1Art">{{cite book|publisher=Imperial War Museum|year=2008|title=Art from the First World War|isbn=978-1-904897-98-9}}</ref><ref name="USmalley">{{cite web |author=Ulrike Smalley|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-british-government-sponsored-the-arts-in-the-first-world-war |title=How The British Government Sponsored The Arts In The First World War |access-date=28 September 2016|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref>
Although Holden's plans for the building have been lost, Muirhead Bone described the structure as a "kind of Pavilion", surrounded by a garden, with a main gallery leading to an oratory with a dedication to the "coming Brotherhood of Man for which we all pray."<ref name="BTruth">{{cite book|author=Richard Cork|publisher=Yale University Press & The Barbican Art Gallery|year=1994|title=A Bitter Truth - Avant Garde Art and the Great War}}</ref> The centre piece of the Hall were to be four 'super-pictures', each 20 feet long by 7 feet high and each on the theme of cooperation between Britain and its various allies.<ref name="Harries">{{cite book|author=Merion Harries & Susie Harries|publisher=Michael Joseph, The Imperial War Museum & Tate Gallery|year=1983|title=The War Artists, British Official War Art of the Twentieth Century |isbn=0-7181-2314-X}}</ref> William Orpen was offered the commission for the Britain and its Italian allies picture but refused, as he did not want to leave the Western Front for a trip to Italy. Augustus John accepted the commission to produce the Anglo-French super-picture but the painting, ''Junction of Our Lines with the French'' never materialised. John Singer Sargent was tasked with depicting Anglo-American cooperation but failed to find an appropriate scene whilst visiting the Somme and instead presented the picture known as ''Gassed''. The fourth super-picture, of troops from the Empire, was never commissioned.<ref name="Harries"/>
==Artworks== The paintings commissioned and completed for the Hall of Remembrance include: [[File:Tonks, Henry - An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|''An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918'' by Henry Tonks]] * ''Gassed'' by John Singer Sargent, * ''Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916'' by Stanley Spencer, * ''An Advanced Dressing Station in France, 1918'' by Henry Tonks * ''Irish Troops in the Judaen Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment'' by Henry Lamb<ref name="Ferguson"/> * ''The Menin Road'' by Paul Nash * ''Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship'' by Walter Bayes<ref name=IWMland>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1877 |title=''Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship'' |access-date=13 February 2014|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening'' by John Nash * ''A Battery Shelled'' by Percy Wyndham Lewis * ''The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918'' by Darsie Japp<ref name=IWMrfa>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/14256|title=''The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918''|access-date=5 July 2014|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Heavy Artillery'' by Colin Gill.<ref name=IWMha>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/10703 |title=''Heavy Artillery''|access-date=5 July 2014|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal'' by George Clausen<ref name="Ferguson"/> * ''The Harvest of Battle'' by C R W Nevinson<ref name="Ferguson">{{cite book|author=John Ferguson|publisher=Stainer & Bell|year=1980|title=The Arts In Britain In World War 1 |isbn=0-85249-548-X}}</ref> * ''The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916'' by Charles Sims.<ref name=IWMofl>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/24822 |title=''The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916'' |access-date=5 October 2014|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Divers at Work Repairing a Torpedoed Ship'' by John Laviers Wheatley<ref name="Harries"/> * ''The Battlefields of Ypres—After'' by David Young Cameron<ref name=IWMdyc>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1050000272 |title=First World War Art Archive, Cameron, D.Y.|access-date=27 September 2014|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918: erected during the War for Messer. Steel, Peech and Tozer Ltd., Phoenix Works, Rotherham'' by Charles John Holmes<ref name=IWMcjh>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/13526 |title=A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918: erected during the War for Messer. Steel, Peech and Tozer Ltd., Phoenix Works, Rotherham |access-date=28 September 2016|work=Imperial War Museum}}</ref> * ''Erecting a Camouflage Tree'' by Leon Underwood<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/26729|title=''Erecting a Camouflage Tree''|website=Imperial War Museum|access-date=8 August 2020}}</ref> * ''A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918'' (1918) by Harold Sandys Williamson<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/38181 |title=''A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918''|website=Imperial War Museum|access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref> {{-}} <br> <gallery mode="packed">
File:Sargent, John Singer (RA) - Gassed - Google Art Project.jpg|''Gassed'' by John Singer Sargent File:Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment, 1919 Art.IWMART2746.jpg|''Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment'' by Henry Lamb File:The Menin Road.jpg|''The Menin Road'' by Paul Nash File:Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship Art.IWMART1234.jpg|''Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship'' 1918 by Walter Bayes File:Nash, John (RA) - Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening - Google Art Project.jpg|''Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening'' by John Nash File:Lewis, Percy Wyndham - A Battery Shelled - Google Art Project.jpg|''A Battery Shelled'' by Wyndham Lewis File:The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918 by Darsie Japp.jpg|''The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918'' by Darsie Japp File:Heavy Artillery Art.IWMART2274.jpg|''Heavy Artillery'' by Colin Gill File:In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal, 1918 Art.IWMART1984.jpg|''In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal'' by George Clausen File:The Harvest of Battle Art.IWMART1921.jpg|''The Harvest of Battle'' by C R W Nevinson File:The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916 Art.IWMART2282.jpg|''The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916'' by Charles Sims File:Divers at Work Repairing a Torpedoed Ship (Art.IWM ART 2245).jpg|''Divers at Work Repairing a Torpedoed Ship'' by John Laviers Wheatley File:David Young Cameron - Battlefields of Ypres (CWM 19710261-0118).jpg|''The Battlefields of Ypres—After'' by David Young Cameron File:A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918 - erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech and Tozer, Ltd., Phoenix Works, sheffield Art.IWMART1216.jpg|''A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918'' by Charles John Holmes File:A 'camouflage tree' was an observation post made from a hollow metal cylinder, camouflaged as a dead tree. Art.IWMART2283.jpg|''Erecting a Camouflage Tree'' (1919) by Leon Underwood File:A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918 Art.IWMART1986.jpg|''A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918'' (1918) Harold Sandys Williamson: </gallery>
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