Great War Paintings by Gilbert Rogers

[Dan Morton]

I'm posting these two marvelous paintings by the British artist, Gilbert Rogers, from a discussion and post on the Great War Forum. I'm definitely doing a figure of the dead stretcher bearer and possibly both of them. I don't mind admitting that I find both inspiring and moving in entirely different ways.

"Dead Stretcher Bearer"

"Humanity - 9th Field Ambulance - Stretcher Bearer Post"

All the best,
Dan

 

[garyjd]

Dan, That first image is incredible. It begs to be done in miniature.~Gary

 

[Roc]

Great photos, thanks for posting.

Cheers
Roc.

 

[Milorg]

Hello Guys

After a visit to the Imperial War Museum in London back in the early 90's, I saw this painting of the streatcher bearer, and immediately planned to do a model of this scene. Sculping the whole figure was way to scary so I chopped up a Kirin 1/16 stormtrooper and made a scratch stretcher, bag and cap. Using this method without any sculping on the figure made the posing a little bit difficult, he looks a little stiff :lol:

I'd love to see someone do this scene again.

If I had done this project today, I think I would have done it in a different scale, made the figure from scratch and done some more work on the groundwork.
Well here it is made back in 1992.

Cheers

Per Olav

 

[Dan Morton]

Gary and Roc - Thanks for the comments! Gary, I agree - it begs to be done - AND HAS!

Per Olav - I think you did a marvelous job in 1992! Very well done indeed and thanks for posting!

All the best,
Dan

 

[Christos]

Awesome paintings!
Dan I'm looking forwrd to see some work!

Peter,Very good My friend!

christos

 

[Dan Morton]

Chris - I'm working on a commission and a second figure that the collector might want. Once those are done and off to Roger Newsome to be painted....

Actually I'm going to try to interest the collector in the stretcher-bearer also. TBD and stay tuned.

All the best,
Dan