English and Scottish landscape painter, war artist, author, critic and broadcaster, Stephen Bone was educated at Bedales School and the Slade Art School with Henry Tonks. He was winner of the gold prize for wood engraving at the Paris Decorative Arts Exhibition 1926, and was a member of The New English Art Club. He was also art critic for The Manchester Guardian, broadcaster in the 'Brains Trust' radio series and in the 'Critics' on television.

He generally exhibited small landscape panels, and venues included the NEAC and the Royal Academy. During World War II, he served first as a civilian camouflage officer and then was appointed an official British naval war artist in 1944.

His paintings and drawings of submarines and the Normandy Landings are in The Imperial War Museum. A portrait of Hugh Walpole by Stephen Bone is at the National Portrait gallery; his paintings are also in the Tate collection and in other UK public galleries.

He wrote Albion an Artists Britain', 'The Shell Guide to the West Coast of Scotland; British Weather, The Landscapes of Britain, and three children's books (The Little Boy and His House , ' The Little Boy and His Boat and The Silly Snail(. He illustrated other books with woodcuts.


Sources:
http://www.stephenbone.co.uk/
Roy H. Behrens, Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage

Son of the artist-etcher Sir Muirhead Bone, Stephen Bone studied at the Slade School in the 1920s under Henry Tonks and later exhibitedwith him at the NEAC. Bone also had exhibitions with the Redfern Gallery, Lefevre Gallery, the RA and the Fine Art Society.

He visited Dublin in the 1940s and 1950s, painting there mostly street scenes. Several examples of his work hang in the Tate Gallery, London.