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126 Results
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Aboriginal (female)
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal woman. Along with its male counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....ART93053
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Aboriginal (male)
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal man. Along with its female counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....ART93066
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Aircraftman 1 Kenneth Brown, Canberra
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts half figure portrait of man facing left, holding something in hands.ART28134
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Aircraftwoman M Gillam, Meteorological Office, Canberra
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Aircraftwoman 93723 Margaret Gillam, Royal Australian Air Force, in profile facing left, wearing uniform overcoat, scarf and beret, Canberra.ART28145
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Air Vice-Marshal William Bostock
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Air Vice Marshal William Dowling Bostock, CB, DSO, OBE, Air Commanding RAAF Command Allied Air ForcesART27501
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Anzac Day Ceremony, Australian War Memorial, 1971
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a painting of Anzac Day Ceremony, Australian War Memorial, 1971.ART27772
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Arrival of Gloucesters in Royal Aircraft, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, when Governor-General of Australia made constant flights from State to State during the war period, invariably accompanied by H.R.H the Duchess of Gloucester. Their retu...ART25591
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Australian servicewomen's memorial
Art
Maker: Ferguson, Anne
Whereas more conventional war memorials may incorporate a cenotaph or a representative figure, Anne Ferguson has created a bare platform of coloured stones, divided in two by a curved trench that rese...ART90968
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Bearded dragon
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Bearded Dragon and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austr...AWM2016.60.10
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Bearded dragon gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a bearded dragon. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. ...ART90763
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Bush turkey
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
This gargoyle depicts the face of a bush turkey. It is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. In 1940-41, a stonemason carved this piece based on a plaster model cre...ART93050
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Bush turkey
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Bush Turkey and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australi...AWM2016.60.4
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Bush turkey gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a bush turkey. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In ...ART90756
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Camouflage drawings for two pages of Department of Home Security booklet
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Pencil camouflage drawings for pages 7 and 8 from the Department of Home Security booklet 1942 detailing recommended placement and camouflage of trenches. This is one from a series of twenty layouts, ...ART91594
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Canberra Country
Art
Maker: Bone, Thomas Henry
Depicts a view from Russell Hill, covered in trees, showing the Australian War Memorial in the centre, with mountains in the background (possibly looking towards Black mountain). Thomas H. Bone was a ...ART93005
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Canberra War Memorial from Mt Ainslie
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a view of the Australian War Memorial, viewed from the tree covered slopes of Mt. Ainslie, looking across towards Old Parliament House. Robert Emerson Curtis (1899-1996) was born in Croydon, E...ART29725
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Captain Reg Saunders
Art
Maker: Thalben-Ball, Pamela
Reginald Walter Saunders was born in 1920, in Purnim, Victoria, near the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. He came from a long line of soldiers. Both his father and his uncle served in the First World W...ART28159
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Carpet snake
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Carpet Snake and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austral...AWM2016.60.9
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Carpet snake gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a Carpet Snake. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In...ART90761
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Cassowary
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Cassowary and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia....AWM2016.60.22
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Cassowary gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
Plaster made for the stonemason to carve a gargoyle for the Commemorative Courtyard, Australian War Memorial. Cassowaries are a large flightless bird belonging to the "Ratite" family. There are 3 spec...ART90773
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C. E. W. Bean
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Bronze bust of C.E.W. Bean. Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, MA, BCL (Oxon), LittD (Melb), journalist and historian, Official War Correspondent for Australia 1914-1918, official historian of Australia in t...ART40924
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Cockatoo
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Cockatoo and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. ...AWM2016.60.7
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Cockatoo gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ra...ART90759
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Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian War Memorial, Commemorative Area, Canberra.ART90645
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Control tower, Canberra Airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts three figures in air control tower; one standing with signalling apparatus to eye, another seated watching, and a third, female, partly obscured, on telephone. Numerous aircraft on the tarmac ...ART28150
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Cuscus
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Cuscus and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.19
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Cuscus gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a cuscus. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 ...ART90770
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Design for Hall of Memory interior
Art
An early design for the stained glass windows in the Hall of Memory. The Hall of Memory was conceived in the years following the First World War to honour and remember those who have served and given ...ART90184
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive
Art
Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Beaumont has depicted the infantry pendentive and he envisaged the finished mosaic to have a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorates the services of the Second World Wa...ART29400
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive [initial design]
Art
Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Initial design for the Hall of Memory mosaic. Beaumont has depicted the infantry and the design has a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorates the services of the Second...ART29399
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Design section for Hall of Memory mosaic dome
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Mosaic design section for Hall of Memory dome.ART90180
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Dingo
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Dingo and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Eac...AWM2016.60.12
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Dingo gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a dingo. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 a...ART90764
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Disperse...
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Maker: Hinder, Frank LA & F Co Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security
Second World War poster produced for the Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security Canberra. It was designed by the artist Frank Hinder who worked for the section during the war. Hinder...ARTV02174
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Don't be hard on me Sir....
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Depicts a figure of a man, bending over a small child and chastising him. Above the man's ear is a feather quill with the word 'CRITICISM' on it, and he holds a bill with the words 'BILL FOR DRESSING ...ARTC00004
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Dr Richard van der Riet Woolley
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Dr Richard van de Riet Woolley, Commonwealth Astronomer, member Commonwealth Optical Munitions panel, Chief Executive Army Inventions Directorate, Department of the Army, making observations from the ...ART21391
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Duntroon landscape
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing military exercises on the hill and Parade Ground. The old station homestead is seen on the extreme right. In the background is Canberra's Fairbairn Airfield and the Molonglo River winding thro...ART21390
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Duntroon types
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A group portrait of Australian soldiers standing side on looking into the distance; verso: A rough sketch of three soldiers and a field gun.ART28133
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Eagle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of an Eagle and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.11
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Eagle gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of an eagle. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 ...ART90775
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Emu
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of an Emu and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Each...AWM2016.60.15
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Emu gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of an emu. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 an...ART90766
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Female Aboriginal
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This carving depicts the face of an Aboriginal woman. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 and 1941 th...ART90752
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Female Signaller-control tower, Canberra Airfield
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts half figure of woman in profile holding signaling lamp up to eye. The artist made this sketch while visiting the control tower at Canberra airfield.ART28131
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First convoy in the Indian Ocean
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS Australia and HMAS Canberra (Flagship) parting company with the First Australian Convoy approximately 61/4 hours from Fremantle. Convoy consisted of 11 troopships carrying 6th Division of 2 Austr...ART27542
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Four pillars
Art
Maker: Laurence, Janet Tonkin, Peter
To create the Four pillars for the Australian War Memorial's Hall of Memory, sculptor Janet Laurence worked in collaboration with Peter Tonkin of Tonkin Zulaikha Harford Architects. The Four Pillars a...ART91887
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Frilled lizard
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Frilled Lizard and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austr...AWM2016.60.21
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Frilled neck lizard gargoyle
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a frilled neck lizard. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewe...ART90772
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Frog
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Frog and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Each...AWM2016.60.5