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Charles Cundall:
A study of ships and sea planes in Bloody Bay (near Tobermory) on the Isle of Mull, c. 1942
Passe-partout (ref: 4513)

Pencil and watercolour on paper

7 x 9 5/8 in. (17.5 x 24.5 cm)

Tags: Charles Cundall pencil watercolour maritime transport war World War II Paintings by British Artists Cundall: A Grand Tour

Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist's Daughter

Exhibited: WW2 - War Pictures by British Artists, Morley College London, 28 October -23 November 2016, cat 16. 

Literature: WW2 - War Pictures by British Artists, Edited by Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss, July 2016, cat 16, page 54. 

This is possibly a study for a painting now in the collection of The Imperial War Museum. 

In July 1940, the WAAC offered Cundall a salaried six-month contract with the Admiralty, focusing on the work of the Merchant Navy: a timely subject that had been urged on the Admiralty by the Chamber of Shipping the previous spring.

In 1941, after a brief lull following the end of his Admiralty employment, he was transferred to the Air Ministry, where he remained until 1945. Muirhead Bone wrote the catalogue Forward for one of Cundall's exhibitions in 1927 praising him as a "detached observer we feel we can trust".