[Original typescript:] 'Notes on Pictures of the War at Sea, 1939-1945. At [the] National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.'

Bookseller Notes

Oliver Warner was a naval historian, who published 'An Introduction to British Marine Painting' in the same year as this article; during the Second World War, he had served on the War Artists' Advisory Committee - the body whose work he summarises in his 6pp. Introduction to his detailed Notes on the artworks transferred from the Imperial War Museum to Greenwich. In both sections, he describes the work of Sir Muirhead Bone and his son, Stephen, Leslie Cole, Barnett Freedman, Anthony Gross, Thomas Hennell, Henry Lamb, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Piper, Norman Wilkinson, et al. Seemingly unpublished, though possibly printed at the time for use in the Museum.[With:] An extra printing of the Introduction, 4pp., a couple of manuscript corrections, clipped to the front a note from P.K. Kemp at the Admiralty, thanking Warner for the loan of it (dated 1954)[And:] Three typed letters from Frank G.G. Carr at the National Maritime Museum, 1947-8, the last referring to Warner's 'secretarial expenses' in preparing this work - and accompanied by a copy of Warner's letter regarding this, which also sets out the 'limitations' of his work in respect of the level and type of detail included.