MUSEUMS & EVENTS
BRITAIN’S ‘WAR HORSE’ ARTIST
THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM IS EXHIBITING THE COLLECTED WORK OF FAMOUS BRITISH PAINTER SIR ALFRED MUNNINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1919
Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) was one of Britain’s finest painters of horses, who secured his artistic reputation while serving as the official war artist for the Canadian War Memorials Fund. Munnings had trained at the Norwich School of Art and was a professional painter when war broke out. Despite volunteering, he was registered as unfit to fight in the British Army, which ultimately led
