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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 One. The artworks 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 trptych, The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, one part of which is now in the National Gallery. The scheme was initiated by Lord Beaverbrook, the then Minister of Information and echoed the scale of a 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. 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." 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. 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.〔 The paintings commissioned and completed for the Hall of Remembrance were, * ''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〔 * ''The Menin Road'' by Paul Nash * ''Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship'' by Walter Bayes * ''Oppy Wood:Evening'' by John Nash * ''A Battery Shelled'' by Percy Wyndham Lewis * ''The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918'' by Darsie Japp * ''Heavy Artillery'' by Colin Gill. *''In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal'' by George Clausen〔 *''The Harvest of Battle'' by C R W Nevinson * ''The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916'' by Charles Sims. *''The Battlefields of Ypres - After'' by David Young Cameron ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hall of Remembrance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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