01 Painting, The art of War, Leonard Henry Rosoman's Bomb Falling into Water, with footnotes

Leonard Henry Rosoman (1913–2012)

Bomb Falling into Water, c. 1942

Oil on canvas

H 56.2 x W 66.6 cm

Tate

As a member of the National Fire Service, Rosoman had first-hand experience of fighting fires during German bombing raids. He was stationed in the East End of London, which was especially badly hit. He explained that Bomb Falling into Water was ‘painted in 1942 when I was in the N.F.S. and was the result of night after night fighting fires in the London dock area – bombs were falling into the Thames and into the water in the docks.’ More on this painting

Leonard Henry Rosoman, 1913–2012, painter, was mural artist, illustrator and teacher. Born in London Rosoman basically remained there, although he travelled extensively. He studied, 1930–5, at King Edward VII School of Art, University of Durham, where his teachers included E M O’Rorke Dickey, then at Royal Academy Schools, 1935–6, and at Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1937–8, under Bernard Meninsky. Rosoman taught from 1938–9 at Reimann School, where his subject was perspective, but on outbreak of World War II he was mobilised into the National Fire Service. In 1943 he was seconded to the War Office to illustrate books on firefighting, being appointed an Official War Artist to the Admiralty in 1944. His depictions of firefighting were among his most outstanding early work.

Had first one-man show in 1946 at St George’s Gallery. In 1947–8 Rosoman taught at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts; at Edinburgh College of Art, 1948–56; and at Royal College of Art, 1956–78. He exhibited in RA Summer Exhibition from 1960 and was elected RA, 1970. Showed extensively at Fine Art Society, which gave him a retrospective in 1974, a ninetieth-birthday exhibition in 2003. Rosoman carried out a number of important mural commissions, notably for Festival of Britain in 1951 and for Shakespeare Exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon, 1964. Tate Gallery, Imperial War Museum and other public collections hold his work. More on Leonard Henry Rosoman

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