“Fīčrñ wrcs bî ātists includñ Picaso, Henri Mur, Edẉd Bura, Windm Luis n Jon Āmstroñ, amñst uɖrz, ɖs xibišn wl rvil hâ a jeṇrešn v Britiš ātists wr drwn intu ɖ Spaniš Sivl Wor. Ẇl mni went t fît in ɖ wor ɖmslvz, uɖrz crietd pôstrz campenñ fr êd fr refyjīz, or crietd wrcs ɖt md firs ṗlitcl stêtmnts.

Ɖ Spaniš Sivl Wor (1936–9) wz wn v ɖ most significnt conflicts v ɖ twentiiʈ senčri. Ẇl Britiš litrri riaẋnz t ɖ conflict hv bn mč xamind, ɖs xibišn, in pātnršp wɖ Paḷnt Hâs Gaḷri, z ɖ frst t xplor ɖ rspons v Britiš vižl ātists.

Ɖ Spaniš Sivl Wor wz fwt btwn ɖ Spaniš Rpublic n a rebl Našnlist fws, led bî Jenṛl Franco. It ynîtd ɖ abstract n riylist ātists v ɖ tîm t criet a dvrs ātistc rspons t ɖ fît agnst fasizm.

Wn v ɖ most fems wrcs on šo z Picaso’z Wīpñ Wmn (1937.) Ɖs z on dsple alñsd mtirı̣l dītêlñ ɖ impact in Britn v ɖ ātist’s îconic pêntñ, Guernica, ẇč travld t ɖ YC in 1938.

Ɖ xibišn includz lounwrcs fṛm bʈ public n prîvt c̣lẋnz in a renj v mīdia, includñ pêntñ, printmêcñ n sculpčr.”

Wyndham Lewis, The Surrender of Barcelona, 1347 © Tate, London 2014 © The Estate of Mrs G. A. Wyndham Lewis

Edward Burra, The Watcher,1937 Photo Tate, London 2014 © Succession Picasso/DACS 2014

Henry Moore, Spanish Prisoner, 1939 Photo © Michel Muller The Henry Moore archive, Reproduced by permission of the Henry Moore Foundation

Edward McKnight Kauffer, Design for a poster, Help to Send Medical Aid to Spain, 1937 Victoria and Albert Museum © Simon Rendall

Demonstration in Battersea, 1939 by Clive Branson. Photograph: Collection of Rosa Branson/© The Estate of Clive Branson

Spanish Peasant Woman (standing), 1936 by Felicia Browne. Private Collection © the Estate of Felicity Browne

John Armstrong, Windowed Raggedness, 1938, The Haines Collection© Artist’s Estate / Bridgeman Images

Revelations, 1938 by John Armstrong. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library

‘Sunrise’, 1938, by John Armstrong

Distressed Area (1938), Merlyn Evans © Estate of Merlyn Evans

Design for ‘We Ask Your Attention’, Henry Moore. Published by the Farleigh Press, 1938.

Spanish Head (1938–9), F. E. McWilliam © Estate of F. E. McWilliam

Walter Nessler, 1937: Premonition

Ursula McCannell, 1936: Family of Beggars

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