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Barracks, sleeping figures, Wangaratta
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Two unidentified figures asleep under greatcoats, on floor of barracks.ART29698
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Battlefield 1942
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Tucker served in the army for several months, and his many images from this period are quite bleak. This work depicts a man, his body distorted and grotesque, lying beneath a military tank. The sun se...ART94636
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Cadaver
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Male corpse in the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagrams. He was subsequently attach...ART29696
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Clown
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Clown 1943 was painted at a time when Albert Tucker was entering a new phase in his art making, with his approach to subject and expression set against the background of a nation at war. His experienc...ART96038
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Cover design for 'Angry Penguins'
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
This drawing shows Tucker's concern about the licentious behaviour in the blacked-out streets of Melbourne in wartime. The drunken figure of a digger sprawls with the sole of his foot outwards, and hi...ART28283
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Despairing head
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagrams. He was subsequently attached to the Medical Corps for whom he produced draw...ART29482
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Image of modern evil
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
The 'Images of modern evil' (IME) series is an embodiment of the artist's personal reaction to the years of the Second World War in Melbourne and to the blackout periods in particular. Tucker has said...ART93996
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Image of modern evil: Tram
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Worried about the rise of vice during the war including crime, public drunkenness and carnality in certain streets, Tucker's works began to reflect these themes. Presenting the city as a threatening, ...ART91991
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Inokuma Genichiro
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
While travelling in Japan in February to April 1947, Tucker met a number of Japanese artists including Genichiro Inokuma, a former Japanese war artist.ART91448
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In the street, Osaka
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
In 1947 Tucker travelled through New Guinea, Philippines, Okinawa and Japan with American, Harry Roskolenko. Here Tucker depicts a street scene while he was in Osaka.ART91451
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Kure, Japan
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Wreckage in the Kure shipyards, Japan. On his visit to Japan in 1947, Albert Tucker documented in a series of works on paper, the result of Allied bombing raids.ART28471
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Mess hall
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Heads of two soldiers in the Mess Hall of the Army Camp, Wangaratta, Victoria. Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagra...ART29699
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not titled [An old soldier with skull]
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Maker: Boyd, Arthur Tucker, Albert
This coloured brown etching of a soldier and a skull identifies Arthur Boyd’s fascination with war. The symbolism of the Australian solider identified by the Rising Sun badge is a prominent aspect of ...ART96816
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Psycho, Heidelberg Military Hospital
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
In September 1942, 27-year-old Private Albert Tucker was admitted to 115 Australian General Hospital at Heidelberg in Melbourne for observation after a slight illness. It was from his hospital bed tha...ART28305
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Two-up, Wangaratta
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
A group of soldiers playing two-up with their barracks in the background.ART29697