The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a shell hole and fallen tree in a field near Allonville.
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 shell damage on the wall of a house in the town of St Gratien. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His na
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 view of the landscape outside Glisy, from the embankments, with Corbie indicated by Streeton as being in the background. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelb
Depicts a view of L'Hallue valley, with positions of the villages of Montigny-sur-l'Hallue and Frechencourt indicated, as well as lines of trenches. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painte
Depicts the Number 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbeville with large tents used as hospital wards, and in the background are wooden buildings. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters
