Raymond Coxon

In 1922 Moore and Coxon visited France and met a number of artists there, including Pierre Bonnard and Aristide Maillol.

Coxon took a teaching post at the Richmond School of Art in 1925 and in 1926 he married Edna Ginesi, with Moore acting as his best-man.

[3] In 1927 the Coxons, Moore, Leon Underwood and others formed a short-lived artists grouping called the British Independent Society.

[6] That offer was refused but WAAC commissioned Coxon to produce some paintings of Army subjects in Britain, after which they purchased several other pieces from him.

[7] Independently of WAAC, Coxon received commissions from the Royal Navy and Army that saw him spend time on a corvette on convoy duty, join a river patrol on the Thames and witness parachutists making training jumps.