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Anzac title page
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Naked Gallipoli soldier without head or arms and with a wooden leg. ANZAC painted across the centre of the image. Nolan stated that the stump leg and missing limbs derives from an antique statue which...ART91203
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Anzac 'walking wounded'
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Wounded Gallipoli soldier on crutches, the figure reminiscent of ancient Greek statues such as Kouros, the sculptures that were young nude Greek youths. The statues embodied the idea of youth and the ...ART91224
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Australian soldier
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace Meridian Sculpture Founders
Depicts a bronze bust of a typical Australian soldier. This bronze edition was cast in 1994 from the original plaster cast from 1926.ART90166
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Bringing up the guns
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Maker: Butler-George, May
This is the original plaster cast of one of four bronze bas-relief panels commissioned from Butler-George for the base of the pedestal of the Second Division AIF Memorial at Mont St Quentin, France i...ART90084
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Defence of Anzac
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace Gregory, E J
Two soldiers wearing 'Anzac uniform' - hats, shorts made from cut down trousers, boots and socks, one with bare torso and one with improvised short sleeved shirt, one carrying rifle and bandolier arou...ART13664
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Die drei starken [The three strong ones]
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Maker: Unterholzer, Josef E
This sculpture consists of the figures of an old woman with a rosary, a young mother with a baby in her arms and in between them, an Austrian soldier who is protecting them all. The sculpture suggests...ART92944
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[Gallipoli landscape with recumbent Greek figure]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli landscape with recumbent Greek figure on a piece of Greek architecture over blue sea with cliffs in background. Nolan is here overtly playing off the themes of the Trojan War and the Anzac s...ART91226
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General Sir John Monash Commemorative Sculpture
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Maker: Holland-Batt, Sarah Robb, Charles Billmans Foundry
‘This work—a collaboration between a sculptor and poet—combines the language of figurative statuary with text drawn from General Sir John Monash’s writings to honour one of Australia’s greatest milita...AWM2018.419.1
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Louis McCubbin
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Perrin Sculpture Foundry Pty Ltd
This bronze cast of the head of Louis McCubbin was cast from an original plaster by William Leslie Bowles. In 1924, the two artists worked together with Wallace Anderson, and Charles Webb Gilbert on t...ART94001
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Maquette for Geelong Grammar School war memorial
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Maker: Lambert, George
This is a small modeling clay study (maquette) for the final large scale bronze for the Geelong Grammar School war memorial. The work was commissioned by the Old Geelong Grammarians Association to co...ART40999
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Maquette for 'The Anzacs' [Desert Mounted Corps Memorial]
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Gregory, E J
Light Horseman mounted on rearing horse, while NZ Mounted Rifleman is dismounting as his horse scrambles to its feet, created to commemorate the Australians and New Zealanders of the Desert Mounted Co...ART12593.001
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Memoir
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Maker: Macnamara, Shirley
Inspired by the commemorative events held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, "Memoir" commemorates the service of Indigenous soldiers who fought overseas and were never recognise...ART96854
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not titled [clay figure from 'Coming World Remember Me' installation]
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Maker: Vanmechelen, Koen
This clay figure is one of 600,000 from participatory installation 'Coming World Remember Me'. "CWRM [Coming World Remember Me] wants to give a voice to all those who were silenced on the battlegrou...AWM2022.216.1
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Not titled [portrait bust of a woman, Hagar]
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Maker: Unknown
Marble bust of a woman (Hagar) purportedly taken from a tomb in the ruins of the Palace of Zenobia, in Palmyra (then known in Arabic as Tadmur) in central Syria. Archaeologists have discovered no trac...ART00484
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Overall design for 'The Anzacs' [Desert Mounted Corps Memorial]
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web
In 1923, Charles Web Gilbert, with architects Stephenson & Meldrum, were awarded first prize for their winning design for the 'Monument to the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Forces who lai...ART12593
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Patriotism
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Maker: Montford, Paul Meridian Sculpture Founders
Paul Montford arrived in Australia from England in 1923 with a strong reputation as a sculptor. He had trained at the Royal Academy School as a scholarship holder, won numerous sculpture prizes, exhi...ART41009
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recto: [Exhibition flyer]; verso: [Ammunition dump and encampments]
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch for an exhibition flyer of works by Arthur Streeton to be exhibited in 1925. The image is of bust sculpture of a woman with winged wreath. The verso is the left side of a sketch of an ammunit...ART93175.011
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Study for 'Sacrifice'
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Maker: Hoff, Rayner
Head study for 'Sacrifice'; a preliminary work for the central figure inside the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park South, Sydney, the principal NSW State war memorial. Hoff's sculpture is the main focus of th...ART92622