Jordan Valley and hills of Moab from Gharaniyeh Accession Number: ART19627

Description

Depicts a panoramic and topographical view, with notations of the location of places, weather and time of day. The landscape looks towards the hills of Moab in the background and the artist noted on the sketch; 'April 23rd 18/ cloudy, afternoon light, 12 to 2.30pm'. Moab is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in Jordan. The land lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.
Otho Hewett (1887- 1942) served with the 9th Light Horse Regiment and 3rd Light Horse Brigade Headquarters during the First World War. Trained as a designer is South Australia, he joined the ANZAC Divisional Headquarters at Romani as a panoramic artist and sketched each battlefield on the way to Jericho. He also contributed illustrations to Kia-Ora Coo-Ee, the magazine which was written and edited by Australian and New Zealand troops serving in Egypt, Palestine, Salonica and Mesopotamia, printed in Cairo and appeared in monthly issues between March and December 1918. Returning to Australia, Hewett lived in Adelaide during the 1920s and then moved to the town of Tintinara where he lived between 1929 and 1942, working as an artist, craftsman and cafe owner. He also made furniture and musical instruments. Hewett painted an Egyptian drop scene for the Tinitinara Hall when it opened in 1931 and died in 1942.

Details

Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918

Places

• Palestine

Tags

• Sketches and drawings