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Acetylene Welder

Image credit: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

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Two women are welding at work benches. The sparks create contrast and light their faces. They have their hair in scarves and wear goggles and aprons, yet their arms are bare and unprotected. Nevinson’s prints were particularly admired when first exhibited. One critic wrote that he ‘contrives to make the visitor almost giddy’, another that he possessed ‘the power of expressing sensations rather than visual facts’. Nevinson studied lithography under Ernest Jackson in 1912. At the outbreak of war he volunteered as an ambulance driver, an experience which deeply affected him.  He was appointed an official war artist in 1917. These prints follow the process of building aircraft from making parts to assembly and flight. ‘Acetylene Welder’ and ‘Assembling Parts’ both show the growing contribution of women workers.

Title

Acetylene Welder

Date

1917

Medium

lithograph on paper

Measurements

H 47.5 x W 37.7 cm

Accession number

NMW A 13190

Acquisition method

gift from H. M. Ministry of Information, 1919

Work type

Print

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