page_title: War Artists' Advisory Committee
section_title: Exhibition programme
hierarchical_section_title: War Artists' Advisory Committee / Exhibition programme
caption_attribution_description: English: Coggeshall Church, Essex 1940 John Armstrong 1893-1973 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05675
context_page_description: The War Artists Advisory Committee, was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its aim was to compile a comprehensive artistic record of Britain throughout the war. This was achieved by appointing official war artists who were sent to specific locations to capture how the war affected the area.
  When the committee was dissolved in December 1945 its collection consisted of 5,570 works of art produced by over four hundred artists. This collection was then distributed to museums and institutions in Britain and around the world, with over half of the collection, some 3,000 works, going to the Imperial War Museum.
caption: Coggeshall Church, Essex, (Tate, 1940) by John Armstrong
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