Somme 2nd
Art ART93175 First World War, 1914-1918Artists sketchbook covering the campaign in the Somme Valley, November 1918. The sketchbook comprises 27 pages, including 5 blank pages, 20 sketches and two illegible partial sketches. Places depicte
4th Army pigeon loft, Peronne Accession Number: ART12640
Description
Depicts the British 4th Army pigeon loft for communications. The loft is damaged with holes in the roof and parts of the walls. This drawing was made in Streeeton's sketchbook ART93175 and later excised.
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.
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Accession Number
ART12640
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pencil with brown coloured pencil on paper
Measurement
sheet: 32.5 cm x 25.4 cm
Medium
pencil with brown coloured pencil on paper
Date Made
1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Presented by the Naval and Military Club, Melbourne, 1937
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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