Helicopter, Darwin
Art ART91050 East Timor, 1999-2013Close-up view of the front of a helicopter. This is Amor's appropriated version of the image by Eric Thake 'Liberator's face' (ART26970).
Liberator's face Accession Number: ART26970
Description
Thake's view of a Consolidated B24 Liberator aircraft in Darwin, seeing the machine as some sort of crouching giant insect. Eric Thake was one of three artists appointed by the RAAF Historical Section in 1944 and 1945 to document the latter part of the war as it affected the RAAF.
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Accession Number
ART26970
Artist
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: gouache on paper
Measurement
Overall: 51.2 cm x 39.2 cm
Medium
gouache on paper
Date Made
August 1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Presented by the RAAF War History Section 1955
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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