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unusual facts about war artist



Ivor Hele

He was the longest serving war artist for the Australian War Memorial and completed more commissioned works than any other Australian artist in the history of Australian art.

Soundtrack to War

Soundtrack to War is a 90 minute documentary by Australian war artist George Gittoes.


see also

Barrallier Books

When Ian Gordon retired from the Australian Army in 2009, the focus on deluxe productions and the evocative book designs by Peter Gamble sharpened and in 2010 Barrallier Books published Vietnam on Canvas, a biography of Australia's official Vietnam War artist, Ken McFadyen, by Melbourne based author and artist Sandra Finger Lee.

Checkendon

War artist Eric Kennington (1888–1960), who was churchwarden, is buried here.

Exiled in Paris

This begins with the arrival of Wright at Gertrude Stein's Paris apartment, effectively handing the baton over from the pre-war artist-led bohemian Paris of Stein, Anaïs Nin, and Henry Miller to the more literary-focused cafe society.

Frederick Villiers

Frederic Villiers (1851–1922), British war artist and correspondent

Julian Orde

Orde was the eldest child of war artist Cuthbert Orde and Lady Eileen Wellesley, daughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington.

Milan Rai

As well as being a co-ordinator of anti-war group Justice Not Vengeance, Rai is co-editor with anti-war artist Emily Johns of the London-based monthly magazine Peace News.

Philip Connard

He was later appointed an official war artist to the Royal Navy and painted the surrender of the German ship SMS Goeben and the Zeebrugge raid.

Sali Herman

In 1945, he was appointed an Official War Artist, painting at several places in the Pacific such as Rabaul.