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Landing Craft Assault off Southern France Alex Colville, 1944
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Landing Craft Assault off Southern France

Alex Colville Β· 1944

Why it's great

Landing craft head toward the coast in the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944, in a painting by the Canadian war artist Alex Colville.

πŸ›οΈ Part of history

World War II (1939–1945) β€” Landing craft head toward the coast in the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944, in a painting by the Canadian war artist Alex Colville.

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About the artist

Alex Colville

1920–2013 Β· born in Toronto Β· died in Wolfville

Alex Colville was a Canadian painter born in Toronto in 1920. He was an official Canadian war artist in World War II, painting the Netherlands and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and later became famous for calm, mysterious pictures. He lived in Nova Scotia and died in Wolfville in 2013.

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