WILLIAM ROBERTS, War Artist

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William Roberts (1895 – 1980) Biography Roberts was born in Hackney, London and took up an apprenticeship with Sir Joseph Causton Ltd. In 1909 as a poster designer. He attended evening classes at St. Martin’s School of Art in London and later won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art in 1910, whose contemporaries included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer and David Bomberg. Later travels in France and Italy sparked an interest in post-impressionism and Cubism. He was taken up by Wydnham Lewis to form a British alternative to Futurism. In 1916 he enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Artillery, serving on the Western Front, and the next year as an official War Artist, depicting the horrors of war. William Robert's Paintings THE GOATS WAR CELEBRATION GUNNERS PULLING CANNON, YPRES 1917 [Paul Nash] [Augustus John] [Austin Spare] [Bruce Bairnsfarther] [Alfred Lee] [David Bomberg] [Eric Ravilious] [William Rothenstein] [Leonard Raven-Hill] [Frank Brangwyn] [John Lavery] [Francis Dodd] [Stanley Spencer] [Mervyn Peake] [Muirhead Bone] [Cyril-Bird] [William Roberts] [William Orpen] [Mark Gertler] [Philip Steer] [John Hassall] [Wyndham Lewis] [Home] [World War I Posters] [World War Artists] [War Photos] [War Poets] [WWII Desktop] [World War Links] [Sitemap] [Detailed Sitemap]