Anti-aircraft Defences

Anti-aircraft defences is an oil on canvas painting by the British artist C. R. W. Nevinson, from 1940. It is held in the collection of the Imperial [War Museum], in London. It depicts anti-aircraft batteries and London Blitz spotlights. It was transferred to the museum in 1947 by the War Artists' [Advisory Committee]. Nevinson was hugely disappointed not to be offered a governmental commission for his work, and so this painting was created at a time of discord between him and Kenneth Clark.