Description
Depicts the dense jungle at Goldie River crossing near Owen's Corner, New Guinea, during the Second World War. Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902-1966) was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.
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Accession Number
ART28022
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: watercolour and gouache with pen and ink over pencil heightened with white, on cardboard
Measurement
Overall: 52.1 cm x 41 cm
Medium
watercolour and gouache with pen and ink over pencil heightened with white, on cardboard
Credit Line
Presented by the artist 1974
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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