Editing Augustus John (section)

==War==
In December 1917 John was attached to the Canadian forces as a war artist and made a number of memorable portraits of Canadian infantrymen. The result was to have been a huge mural for [[Lord Beaverbrook]] and the sketches and cartoon for this suggest that it might have become his greatest large-scale work. However, like so many of his monumental conceptions, it was never completed. As a war artist, John was allowed to keep his beard; according to [[Wyndham Lewis]], John was "the only officer in the British Army, except the King, who wore a beard."<ref>Holroyd, Michael (1996) ''Augustus John''. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. p. 432. {{ISBN|9780374102555}}.</ref> After two months in France he was sent home in disgrace after taking part in a brawl.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A622522|title=h2g2 - 'Woman Smiling' - the Painting by Augustus John - Edited Entry|first=Not Panicking|last=Ltd|website=h2g2.com|date=18 September 2001 }}</ref> Lord Beaverbrook, whose intervention saved John from a court-martial, sent him back to France where he produced studies for a proposed Canadian War Memorial picture, although the only major work to result from the experience was ''Fraternity''.<ref>Easton and Holroyd, pages 26, 162.</ref> In 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge finally unveiled this mural at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. This unfinished painting, ''[[The Canadians Opposite Lens]]'', is 12 feet high by 40 feet long.<ref>"[http://www.680news.com/news/national/article/248818--duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-will-unveil-the-canadians-opposite-lens-the-latest-canadian-war-museum-acquisition Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will unveil the Canadians Opposite Lens, the latest Canadian War Museum acquisition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707143647/http://www.680news.com/news/national/article/248818--duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-will-unveil-the-canadians-opposite-lens-the-latest-canadian-war-museum-acquisition |date=7 July 2011 }}", press release via Canada NewsWire, 2 July 2011.</ref>
[[File:Time-magazine-cover-augustus-john.jpg|thumb|left|"Artist John," on a 1928 Time magazine cover.]]