The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Chuignolles; 1st Australian Division, 1st Infantry Brigade; German 38 cm naval gun, captured by 1st Brigade AIF, gun destroyed before capture; Western Front, Hindenburg Line; South of Cappy
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 i03521 n 1922, and commissioned several large paintings of significant wartime subjects.
A Lewis Light Machine Gun (LMG) is mounted on a makeshift pedestal in a weapon pit surrounded by sandbags at the Battle of Hamel. The gun was used as an anti-aircraft weapon. In the background are ten
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 the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel
Depicts a naval gun sketched on two sheets of paper with grids drawn in pencil and colour instructions inscribed within. The most powerful land weapons of the Great War were naval guns weighing hundre
Depicts British observation balloons being shot down in the skyline, with a pack of horses tethered in a field, and trees and a train of mounted horses and lorries in the distance. Arthur Streeton is
Depicts an RE8 aircraft standing near a group of tents at Villers-Bocage in France. One aircraft is seen in the right foreground, another at the left distance and one in the air. Arthur Streeton is be
