The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Second World War British poster depicting many colourful types of vegetables, encouraging people to eat them daily for good health. The poster was published by His Majesty's Stationary Office and designed by James Fitton (1899-1982) an English painter, lithographer and theatre set designer, and a founder member of the Artists' International Association. His passion for drawing developed when he was hospitalised aged eight after a botched operation, performed on the kitchen table. In a letter home to his parents he wrote “Be sure and bring my paints and paper and my bag of boiled sweets or I shall be vexed”. He was educated at the Watersheddings Board School. He worked as a printer and advertising artist, and in 1937 designed posters for London Transport. He was a painter of popular genre, a lithographer and theatrical designer. He was apprenticed to a fabric designer at the age of fourteen. He later worked on a newspaper and attended evening classes at Manchester School of Art while working in the docks at night. He came to London in 1919 and attended evening classes at the Central School under , subsequently working as an illustrator and poster designer.
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British Second World War poster depicting a lettuce and salad servers, above a daily newspaper, with the headline 'Feed right to feel right'. The poster was produced by His Majesty's Stationary Office
Portrait of Eric Thake, painting in his studio. Eric Prentice Anchor Thake was born in Auburn, Vic in 1904. Before the Second World War he was apprenticed to a process engraving company and worked as
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British Second World War poster depicting a stylised caricature of Hitler, grinning, his arm raised in a salute. The poster was produced by His Majesty's Stationary Office and encouraged food savings
Pencil sketch depicting a number of women working in the Corps hand laundry in Outtersteene, Bailleul, France. This laundry was allotted to the 5th Division in July 1917. Frederick Leist was a painte
Watercolour sketch depicting a nun wearing white head dress and long black habit with rosary, sitting on an upright wooden chair, working on bobbin (or cushion) lace. The lace is cushion supported on
