Regimental Bath

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20714

Title

Regimental Bath

Description

The chaotic scene shows a group of soldiers bathing together. The men are seemingly initiating or punishing a soldier with a rather aggressive bath. The artist has depicted the inner sanctum of life in an army barracks.

Artist / maker

Howson, Peter

Size

185.0 x 138.0 cm

Type

Oil painting

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1990/54

Peter Howson is a Scottish painter. His work has encompassed a number of themes. His early works are typified by very masculine working class men based on the people he met around his Glasgow studio. Later he was the official war artist for the Bosnian civil war in 1993. Here he produced some of his most shocking and controversial work detailing the atrocities which were taking place at the time. His time in Bosnia deeply affected him, and it resulted in a downward spiral of depression and heartache. In recent years Howson has turned to painting of religious subjects, and was featured in a solo exhibition at the City Art Centre exploring the themes of Saint Andrew, Scotland's patron saint.

By permission of the Estate of Peter Howson

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