The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a gas alert in a village at the Western Front with wrecked buildings, a stretcher bearer carrying a soldier on a stretcher moving out of view at right of the work, and another soldier standing near a recumbent figure. Both standing soldiers are wearing gas masks and respirators. The sign on the house at the right says 'Gas Alert'.
Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is linked with Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, and Frederick McCubbin as responsible for developing in Australia an impressionist technique of painting, and depicting scenes that embraced the nationalistic concerns of the last two decades of the nineteenth century. During his lifetime he was acknowledged as the finest painter of the Australian landscape; he was the first Australian painter to be honoured by a retrospective exhibition in his own lifetime; and only the second to be knighted.
In 1918 while based in London, he was appointed by the Australian War Memorial as an official war artist and travelled to France to record the involvement of Australians in the battles taking place along the Somme River. During the period of his employment he produced ten paintings and eighty-six drawings that are held by the Memorial. These were all executed in the years 1918 and 1919. The Memorial later purchased his HMS Renown, Sydney Harbour painted in 1922, and commissioned several large paintings of significant wartime subjects.
Depicts a gas alarm at an encampment, which consists of what appears to be an empty shell case attached to rope slung up a pole and attached to wagon wheels above trenches. There are also explosions a
Depicts a view of the landscape outside Amiens. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is linked with Tom R
Depicts a view of the Somme valley from near Corbie. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is linked with
Depicts a dressing station situated in a tunnel under the town of Villers-Bretonneux, with a soldier on a stretcher being attended to and various medical and personal equipment around the station. Art
Depicts trucks of the 1st AIF parked in and alongside farm outbuildings in Coisy with soldiers standing beside two trucks. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School
Depicts mules feeding and stabled at an AIF encampment outside Glisy. There is a soldier at the left carrying feed bags for the mules. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heide
