CAPTAIN PETER McINTYRE (right), Official War Artist with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East, recently gave a talk over Station 2YA, from which we print an extract below. He comes from Dunedin, which he left about 13 years ago to study at the Slade School in London. He painted portraits in London, and worked as an illustrator in Fleet Street, and then on the outbreak of war he joined the New Zealand Anti-Tank Battery. After a year as a gunner, he became Official Artist. In peacetime, he painted in Spain—a bullfight, for instance — and in France joined a French circus, and painted his first celebrity, Grock, the famous clown. In the Bavarian Alps he painted Hermann Goering, "a fantastic figure in little leather shorts and a Tyrolean hat with a huge feather." And in the tiny Republic of Andorra he painted a "revolution." "All that seemed exciting enough," he told his listeners, "but it was a mere preliminary to painting the Division in the war."

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 230, 19 November 1943, Page 21

CAPTAIN PETER McINTYRE (right), Official War Artist with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East, recently gave a talk over Station 2YA, from which we print an extract below. He comes from Dunedin, which he left about 13 years ago to study at the Slade School in London. He painted portraits in London, and worked as an illustrator in Fleet Street, and then on the outbreak of war he joined the New Zealand Anti-Tank Battery. After a year as a gunner, he became Official Artist.

In peacetime, he painted in Spain—a bullfight, for instance — and in France joined a French circus, and painted his first celebrity, Grock, the famous clown. In the Bavarian Alps he painted Hermann Goering, "a fantastic figure in little leather shorts and a Tyrolean hat with a huge feather." And in the tiny Republic of Andorra he painted a "revolution." "All that seemed exciting enough," he told his listeners, "but it was a mere preliminary to painting the Division in the war."