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Wartime Wood Machining

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The artist John Hutton was born in New Zealand and came to England as a young man. During the Second World War he worked as a camouflage painter in the Middle East, France and Germany. He was then made Chief Instructor of camouflage painting at Farnham park, training other artists to carry out his valuable work.

It was while here in Farnham that he became friendly with Basil Crosby, son of the managing director of Crosby Doors who encouraged him to execute these fascinating pictures showing wartime workers making munitions. Until recently they were hung in the canteen of the Crosby Doors factory.

Museum of Farnham

Farnham

Title

Wartime Wood Machining

Date

1946

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 90 x W 181 cm

Accession number

A991.41

Work type

Painting

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