Norman Wilkinson (artist)
Norman Wilkinson CBE RI was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolors and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but he was also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented Dazzle Painting to protect merchant shipping during World War I.
Wilkinson was born in Cambridge, England, and attended school at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire and at St. Pauls Cathedral Choir School in London. His early artistic training occurred in the vicinity of Portsmouth and Cornwall, and at Southsea School of Art, where he was later a teacher as well. He also studied with seascape painter Louis Grier. At age 21, he studied academic figure painting in Paris, but by then he was already interested in maritime subject matter.
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