Bluey Burke Accession Number: ART27888

Description

Portrait of 'Bluey' Burke, Australian Military Forces, 15th Australian Water Transport Company, Small Craft, wearing a slouch hat. Burke was born in Alice Springs and had worked in the Northern Territory and around the Gulf of Carpenteria from boyhood.

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Accession Number
ART27888
Artist
John Baird
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: conte crayon on paper
Measurement
Overall: 40 cm x 23.8 cm
Medium
conte crayon on paper on cardboard mounting with tracing paper attached
Date Made
1943
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
purchased 1974
Copyright
AWM copyright

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