The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
In one of his first paintings of early convoys on route to Berlin, official war artist Colin Colahan depicts the evacuation of German refugees and troops from the capital and surrounding villages as allied troops enter. The landscape is dramatically divided by two columns passing each other along the sweeping curve of road. Colahan worked directly in oil, rather than painting from sketches made in the field, and here the mood and atmosphere of the scene is rendered with immediacy and vigour.
Colahan was commissioned in 1942 and again in 1944. He began work in Britain, depicting the activities of the Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Forestry Units. After the surrender of Germany, Colahan went to Europe to capture the changing conditions in liberated areas. He travelled through Belgium, France and Germany, painting the celebrations of VE Day, fleeing refugees, and the destruction he witnessed in Berlin.
Depicts the troop convoy of ships to the Middle East, heading out of the Heads, Sydney Harbour. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981) was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and newspaper critic. Working w
Painting of a convoy of thirty-eight troop ships, escorted by four naval ships, with the British cruiser HMS 'Minotaur' in foreground leading the convoy. This ship is followed by SS 'Orvieto' carrying
Caricature of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring (1893-1946) striding through the ruins of Berlin. He is dressed in full dress uniform and carries his jewel encrusted Reichsmarschall baton in his left han
Depicts ships in a convoy leaving Moreton Bay, southbound to Sydney. A lookout in the foreground stands watch complete in his Australian Comforts Fund balaclava. This painting was done from HMAS "More
American Second World War poster , produced by the United States Office of War Information, Division of Public Enquiries, poster no. 61. During the Second World War, fishing was considered imperative
German post First World War political poster depicting a ship captain with his arm around a young German soldier, pointing out to sea at the smoking wreckage of a ship as it sinks beneath the water. T
