Stephen Bone was an English painter, writer, broadcaster and noted war artist.
11 Facts About Stephen Bone
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Stephen Bone was born in Chiswick in west London, the son of Sir Muirhead Bone, an artist, and Gertrude Helena Dodd, a writer.
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Stephen Bone became disillusioned with the Slade; he left in 1924 to begin illustrating books with woodcuts for his mother and other writers.
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In 1929, Stephen Bone married the artist Mary Adshead, and they were to have two sons and a daughter.
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At the outbreak of the Second World War, Stephen Bone enlisted as an officer in the Civil Defence Camouflage Establishment based in Leamington Spa.
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In June 1943, Stephen Bone was appointed by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to be a full-time salaried artist to the Ministry of Information specialising in Admiralty subjects.
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Stephen Bone produced a large quantity of works around Great Britain, showing coastal installations and naval craft, including several works painted on-board submarines.
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Stephen Bone witnessed and sketched the 1944 Normandy landings, painted scenes in Caen and Courseulles after the invasion, and went on to record the assault on Walcheren Island in the Netherlands.
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Stephen Bone became an art critic for the Manchester Guardian, wrote humorous pieces for the Glasgow Herald and did television and radio work for the BBC.
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In 1957, Stephen Bone was appointed the director of the Hornsey College of Art.
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Stephen Bone died of cancer on 15 September 1958 at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.