Original Watercolour & Pencil Drawing '2 Nudes, Berlin 1945' by Ernest Greenwood PRWS. Signed, Inscribed & Dated 45

2 excellent female nude studies by Ernest Greenwood PRWS executed in Berlin in 1945. These 2 pictures were painted while he was attached to the Army Education corps at the end of the war in the Rehabilitation school in Berlin. Historically interesting as a record of Post world war Berlin. I purchased these works from him in the early 1990s from his studio in Kent. He told me that these were models from an art school and they posed to earn money and food in a city that had been devastated. Born in Welling, Kent. Trained at the Royal College of Art under William Rothenstein and Gilbert Spencer, also at the British School in Rome. He then spent a further year at the Royal College studying etching techniques under Malcolm Osborne. In 1939 he married a fellow artist, Eileen Messenger. He was inspector of art education for the L.C.C. from 1953 to 1966, also examiner for the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Past President of the Royal Society of Painters in watercolour, chairman of the Kent guild of artists and a member of the arts committee of the University of Canterbury. He was a guest lecturer for many years with Swan Hellenic cruises. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, also numerous exhibitions in the provinces, including Brighton, Lavenham, Birmingham, and Chester, also in the U.S.A. His work is in public collections include the Tate Gallery, Brighton, Hastings and Hull. Works in private collections include public bodies, major industrialists, private firms and collectors in the U.K. and Canada, U.S.A., Holland, Japan and Austria.