A Battery Shelled
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| Artist | Wyndham Lewis |
| Year | 1919 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 182.8 cm × 317.5 cm (72.0 in × 125.0 in) |
| Location | Imperial War Museum, London |
A Battery Shelled is a 1919 painting by the English artist Wyndham Lewis. It depicts a scene from the Western Front of World War I. It was commissioned for the proposed Hall of Remembrance.
A number of men are seen working and moving around in a grey, cratered landscape with improvised buildings and shattered trees. Brown, stylised smoke pillars are coming out of the ground. To the left, in front of a pile of ammunition boxes, are three men with calm and serious postures, each looking in a different direction. The men in the foreground largely have normal human traits, while the soldiers who populate the rest of the scene lack individual features. The Imperial War Museum's object description defines their unnatural, mostly light brown bodies as "marionette-like".[1] A small officer can be seen in the background, directing a party carrying a wounded man.[2]