Among all the forms of national memory and commemoration, it falls to the artists to paint a war.
The Australian artists who painted World War I approached their subject personally, in ways that reflected their experience of the war. Some contributed as members of the official war artists’ scheme. Others painted as eyewitnesses of the unfolding tragedy. Yet others painted from their hearts.
Their work, in all its richness and variety, is a sweeping painterly chronicle of the war, and a vital part of Australia’s heritage.
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