Stephen Bone, son of the important and influential artist Sir Muirhead Bone, was a significant participant in the War Artists Advisory Committee project. He produced a large number of paintings and drawings for the Committee, many of which are in the NMM collection. This subject, from the Allied landings in Normandy of June 1944, is typically light and impressionistic, with an eye for effective composition – a style well suited to the illustrative, almost journalistic, demands placed upon a war artist.