Chichester, Otter Gallery, University of Chichester, Ingram Loan Exhibition, March – April 2012;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
Literature:
Sue Malvern, Modern Art, Britain and the Great War: Witnessing, Testimony and Remembrance, Yale University Press, 2004
David Bomberg worked on an extended series of drawings immediately following the war, which primarily dealt with the human figure. In common with other rebel artists of the pre-war period, Bomberg’s first-hand experience of the destruction of war led him to a re-examination of his style, and in the 1920s he moved away from abstraction towards a more naturalistic, figurative style. His later topographical landscapes led one critic to exclaim, “What happened to the wild trumpeter?”
