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Weymouth Bay, Victory Day Celebrations
1946
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- watercolor, graphite, pen and ink
- Collection no.
- 1954.772
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Muirhead Bone. Weymouth Bay, Victory Day Celebrations. Muirhead Bone; The Cleveland Museum of Art; John L. Severance Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Weymouth Bay, Victory Day Celebrations — Muirhead Bone. 1946.
Medium: watercolor, graphite, pen and ink. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Hundreds of British beachgoers in Weymouth Bay celebrate the first anniversary of Victory Day, marking the Allies' victory against Germany in May 1945. This colorful depiction highlights the electrified mood of the population. Sir Muirhead Bone served as the official war artist during World War II. Having been appointed in 1916, Bone captured this happy moment after having lived through two world wars.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.