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David Muirhead Bone

David Muirhead Bone

United Kingdom, 1876–1953

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Netherlands

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David Muirhead Bone was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist whose practice centered on industrial and architectural subjects rendered with precise draftsmanship. His work as an official war artist during both world wars established him as a documentarian of conflict and its material consequences, translating the scale and complexity of wartime scenes into intimate linear compositions. His etchings and watercolours combine topographical exactitude with a distinctive graphic sensibility that privileges line and structure over atmospheric effect.

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Artworks (29)

Portrait of Joseph Conrad

Portrait of Joseph Conrad

1923 · Drypoint on cream wove paper

Plate: 25 × 17.7 cm (9 7/8 × 7 in.); Sight: 27.6 × 20.3 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Stockholm

1923 · Drypoint on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 22.8 × 29.2 cm (9 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 27.9 × 40.2 cm (11 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square

1922 · Brush and black ink and black crayon, with brush and blue and gray wash, on ivory wove paper

25.9 × 31.5 cm (10 1/4 × 12 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Solent

1920 · Etching on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 17.6 × 25 cm (6 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 21.4 × 26.5 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Floor of the Train Ferry

The Floor of the Train Ferry

1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 35.2 × 45.8 cm (13 7/8 × 18 1/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 61.3 cm (15 7/8 × 24 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Building a Liner at Greenock

Building a Liner at Greenock

1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 51.5 × 36.5 cm (20 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 60 × 41.3 cm (23 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lifting an Oil Tank into a Train Ferry

Lifting an Oil Tank into a Train Ferry

1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 46.6 × 35.5 cm (18 3/8 × 14 in.); Sheet: 61 × 41.1 cm (24 1/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Tuscania at Glasgow

The Tuscania at Glasgow

1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 53 × 35.6 cm (20 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 61 × 40.4 cm (24 1/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Reconstructing a Clyde Shipyard

Reconstructing a Clyde Shipyard

1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 35.6 × 46 cm (14 1/16 × 18 1/8 in.); Sheet: 40.7 × 61 cm (16 1/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Building a Cross-Channel Train Ferry (Underneath the Bows)

Building a Cross-Channel Train Ferry (Underneath the Bows)

1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

Image: 37 × 47.6 cm (14 5/8 × 18 3/4 in.); Sheet: 41 × 61 cm (16 3/16 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Canal and Bridge of S.S. Apostoli, Venice

Canal and Bridge of S.S. Apostoli, Venice

1916 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Image: 35 × 25 cm (13 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 40 × 28 cm (15 3/4 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Midnight at Venice

Midnight at Venice

1915 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 39.4 × 22.2 cm (15 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 54.8 × 39.3 cm (21 5/8 × 15 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Liberty's Clock

Liberty's Clock

1909 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Plate: 26 × 12 cm (10 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 39.5 × 25.5 cm (15 9/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

East Blatchington

East Blatchington

1908 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Plate: 11.5 × 17.5 cm (4 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17 × 24 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Demolition of St. James Hall, Exterior

Demolition of St. James Hall, Exterior

1907 · Etching and dypoint on white wove paper

Plate: 29.7 × 27.8 cm (11 3/4 × 11 in.); Sheet: 39 × 36 cm (15 3/8 × 14 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Joseph Conrad Reading

Joseph Conrad Reading

1906 · Drypoint on cream wove paper

Plate: 17.5 × 12.5 cm (6 15/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 24.1 × 20.3 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Demolition of St. James Hall, Interior

Demolition of St. James Hall, Interior

1906 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Plate: 40.2 × 28.2 cm (15 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.); Sheet: 54.5 × 40 cm (21 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Approaching Gothenburg, Sweden

Approaching Gothenburg, Sweden

1905 · Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper

25.5 × 35.6 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shot Tower

1904 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Plate: 17.5 × 22.5 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 22 × 28.5 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Foster's Boathouse

Foster's Boathouse

1903 · Drypoint on cream laid paper

Plate: 14.5 × 24.8 cm (5 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 18.2 × 28.1 cm (7 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tontine Gates

1899 · Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper

Plate: 16 × 12 cm (6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 44 × 32 cm (17 3/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shipbuilders, Whiteinch

Shipbuilders, Whiteinch

1899 · Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper

Plate: 28.5 × 21.5 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 24.5 cm (12 13/16 × 9 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Public Gardens, Perugia

The Public Gardens, Perugia

1896 · Pen and brush and brownish-black ink and pastel, over charcoal, on tan wove paper

24.4 × 32.3 cm (9 5/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Autumn Near Auxerre

Autumn Near Auxerre

1896 · Watercolor, over graphite, on cream wove paper

17.8 × 25.6 cm (7 1/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Autumn Near Auxerre (Art Institute of Chicago)

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