We don't have a copy of the June 1944 issue of The Artist. September is the closest I can get to anything printed around D-Day. I thought I would share the thoughts of the then editor, Harold Sawkins, about art sales during the war from September 1944. Would love to know your thoughts. Art Thrives Exceedingly in War-Time Practically all our practising artists have made more money during the war than in any of the years preceding it. More pictures have been sold in art exhibitions, in the dealers’ galleries and in the artists’ studios. The chief reason is that there has been more money circulating amongst people who possessed little before the war. These people have had artistic longings; they have seen pictures they would have loved to purchase had they possessed the money before the war, but the small amount they earned was ‘ear-marked’ for more necessary things of life. Now they earn more, and buy the things they have longed for. We have learned that more people loved pictures than we had thought; we have learned that the desire to possess original paintings was greater than we imagined. Let us therefore hope that the new world we look forward to will allow more people to continue to earn enough money to build up even small collections of good paintings and drawings. They will derive immense enjoyment through so doing; they will improve their artistic tastes; they will improve their artistic knowledge. Only contact with original pictures can do these things. As we have stated before, the love of art is in all of us to some degree; let us hope more ca exercise it when peace comes to the world. Harold Sawkins