not titled ["Camps hospital"] Accession Number: ARTI04613

Description

A group of four soldiers are pictured in the sketch on the left playing cards and smoking. In the image to the right is a sketch of a man in a dressing gown sitting on a hospital bed eating food out a bowl. This drawing was done or inclusion in the army education journal 'Salt.' Arthur Gardener changed his name from Baumgarten after he migrated to Australia at the age of 30 on the 8th of March 1938, landing at Fremantle. "I was prompted to this decision by economic and political reasons, seeing no future for me and my wife in fascistic Austria under Schuschnig's government" he wrote. In Australia, at the age of 58, Private Arthur Gardener, assisted in the efforts of the Second World War on the home front in the 3rd Australian Employment Coy (N303400). Gardener worked as a picket at Mascot Unit Headquarters in Sydney at the time this work was done and spent a lot of time outside his work at the American Red Cross Club where drawing classes were held.

Details

Accession Number
ARTI04613
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pencil on paper
Measurement
sheet: 21.4 x 34 cm
Medium
pencil on paper
Date Made
1941-46
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright unknown

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