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Australian official war artists, 1916–1918 by George Coates, 1920. Oil on canvas, 124.2 x 104.5 cm. The group portrait presents, left to right: front — George Bell; standing — John Longstaff, Charles Bryant, George Washington Lambert, A. Henry Fullwood, James Quinn, H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton; and seated back — Will Dyson, Fred Leist.
Elizabeth Durack (1915–2000): Western Australian artist and writer; Ivan Durrant (born 1947): painter, performance artist and writer; Benjamin Duterrau (1768–1851): English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer who emigrated to Tasmania; Ludwik Dutkiewicz (1921–2008): Ukrainian-born naturalized Australian artist [1]
This category is for War artists whose main topical focus was the first World War. Many of these artists were official artists for their respective governments, but some have produced work post-War. Contents
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century Australian women painters The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The painting toured Australia in 1928–29. It was viewed by record crowds. [4] The painting is housed in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. In December 2000 Menin Gate at Midnight left the War Memorial on loan to the National Gallery of Australia, the first time it had left the memorial since its installation there in 1941.
According to the Australian War Memorial she was "the only known Australian woman artist to have gained access to the Western Front in the immediate aftermath of the war". [12] While there she painted a number of works, including seven which were acquired by the Australian War Memorial in 1977–78 [ 13 ] and others held in the Art Gallery of ...
Lambert became an official Australian war artist in 1917 during the First World War. [2] His painting Anzac, the landing 1915 of the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, is the largest painting at the Australian War Memorial collection. Lambert, as an honorary captain, travelled to Gallipoli in 1919 to make sketches for the painting. [1]
Sir John Campbell Longstaff (10 March 1861 – 1 October 1941) was an Australian painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Longstaff was one of the most prolific portraitists of the Edwardian period, painting many high society figures in both Australia and Britain.