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British artist

Plante, George (1914-1995)

Educated at Edinburgh College of Art and at Contempora, Berlin, Plante served as a radio officer in the Merchant Navy on the SS Sourabaya during the Second World War. He painted during periods of leave and while off-duty and, after the war, he was an art director in the commercial sector.

The artwork in this exhibition

A rescue-ship in the Atlantic, March 1943 - George Plante, Imperial War Museum, ART LD 3055
Australian War Memorial Canadian War Museum Imperial War Museum