The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a crowd of soldiers in Peronne square, surrounded by building skeletons, damaged by war. They are gathered around a bonfire with an effigy of Kaiser hanging from gallows.
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 the shell of a ruined house in the town of Peronne on the Western Front with piles of debris. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the
Depicts the ruins of a house and, in the background, Peronne town hall. A pile of rubble and debris is in the foreground. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg Schoo
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
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
This is a small poster giving details of a performance at Wandsworth Hospital with an image of a dancer wearing a hat and kicking up her legs. Streeton worked as an orderly at Wandsworth Hospital for
