Very nice. I have a book of his military paintings and his railway paintings appear in many books. Some say he was an illustrator rather than an artist but there is nothing wrong with that. I like his work. Must go to Hull some day. I have not been for years. Last time I was there it was to see one of those reconstructed sailing ships, Hornblower or Captain Cook. Mike
A fantastic artist List of works by Terence Cuneo - Wikipedia - theres even some with tanks in them for VP TD
Doubling up from the War Art thread, but I would possibly hurt someone to gain possession of these Churchill construction/testing sketches: On The Strip-line: Churchill tanks being dismantled. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3066) IWM Non Commercial License The Water Test : a hull-immersion test for tanks. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3095) IWM Non Commercial License Giant Presses Stamping Out Small Parts of Churchill Tanks. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3065) IWM Non Commercial License Fitting Tracks at the Pit Station. © IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3096) IWM Non Commercial License Christies past sales: Terence Cuneo | Christie's I fear he may be a tad out of my price bracket...
I am sorry that I missed this thread back in 2018! I love his paintings of the A4 Pacific. I don't know a lot about steam trains but I picked up on the story of the Mallard ... probably as a kid somehow. In any case, I think the A4 series had gorgeous lines and it is great to see paintings of them.
Zooming into the high res version of this can distract for a while. Always assumed it goes hand-in-hand with the sketches date-wise. 'Production of tanks.' (Other resolutions here: File:INF3-17 Production of tanks Artist Terence Cuneo 1939-1946.jpg - Wikimedia Commons )
Surprised no one's mentioned it but isn't there supposed to be a small mouse in all of Cuneo's paintings ?
I'm sure its in at least some military ones - when I was young I got a book about great lands battles of WW2 which had Cuneo illustrations and I enjoyed looking for the wee mouse in each edit - Just looked it out and the first painting is the German Surrender and the little mouse is sitting on the base of the microphone My favourite (now that I see it again) is Operation Crusader with 25 pounders where the mouse has its own tiny gun (a 25 grammer maybe)
Having said that I am sure it's only train paintings, I am sure I saw a little mouse with its own parachute in the foreground. It was a painting called the last Halifax bomber but I can't see the mouse . I would have taken a photo of it but can't remember where I saw it. It's an age thing or the tablets confusing me. Lesley
Sketchy memory says the mouse only started being included postwar. Ah, Wiki says 1954, and he trademarked it in 1956. ('Wiki says'... cough... The reference is a 2009 epidode of the Antiques Roadshow, but I've little reason to doubt.)
Found the picture on the laptop. I remember thinking that it was no use posting it as the photo is a bit blurred when I zoom in on it. Here it is anyway. I know the mouse is somewhere in the foreground. Perhaps somewhere on 'tinternet someone could find the painting which shows the mouse.
this shows on google but not which painting Just A Car Guy: something to get a kick out of, a mouse hidden in each train painting. Terence Cuneo CVO, OBE, FGRA, RGI (1907-1996) was extremely gifted master painter, and was commissioned on every continent to paint particular steam locomotives, and he snuck a mouse into each painting this with the mouse on bottom right