Shared Experience: V.E. Day Street Party, 1945
There is joy and exhilaration evident in this painting. Rationing is still in place but the table is all cakes and tarts. The coloured streamers and flags are sparse decorations but the sense of relief is clear. Nothing concerns or worries the gathered guests, celebrating in the street in a natural response to the end of the war in Europe.
Paintings
- Telephone exchange
Harold Freedman - Mess Deck
Jack Nichols - Moresby picture show
Charles Bush - Airmen In A Village Pub Yorkshire
Miller Brittain - Canadian Airmen in a Park
Goodridge Roberts - You'll Get Used To It
T.R. MacDonald - Waterloo Station
Colin Colahan - The fairground, Sydney 1944
Herbert Badham - Soldiers Bathing
Will Ogilvie - V.E. Day Street Party, 1945
Edwin La Dell