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Flight from reason
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Inner temple, Temple Church London, Second World War after bombing raid, showing bombed monuments to John Hiccocks and Samuel Mead.ART91654
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Fragment of battlefield at Sanananda, New Guinea
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts the Sanananda Track (Road), with a General Stuart tank, abandoned Japanese foxholes and equipment.ART21702
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Furniture store after fire - Stepney; verso: Not titled [study of female nude]
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
This sketch shows the burnt out and destroyed interior at the furniture store, Druce's, in Baker Street, London. Fragments of furniture are piled on top of each other. Verso: incomplete study of a fe...ART26906
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Furniture store in Stepney
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
This watercolour records the destruction of a London building, a furniture store in Stepney, after being bombed during the Blitz. While the iron beam structure remains intact, the ground is littered...ART26908
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Genesis following extirpation
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Maker: Studham, Richard Lynn Studham, Richard Lynn
Artist's statement (2001): "The imagery portrayed in the platter represents the devastation and destruction in the last century, brought about by the exposure to two major world wars. The clay form wa...ART91202
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Germania furiosa 1943
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
Satirical depiction of the actions of Germany in 1943 as a darkly humorous Wagnerian opera. At the centre is a large, blonde female opera singer. Symbolic of the SS she is wearing a pink toga and a st...ART96184.010
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German submarine damaged by bombing, Hamburg
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Maker: Moore, Alan
A German submarine damaged by bombing, surrounded by shattered timbers, Blohm Voss shipyard. The city of Hamburg can be seen in the background.ART25731
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Graveyard, Tolga
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The 'graveyard' is the name by which the wrecked vehicles dumps at Tolga are known. It is a huge junk pile of useless wrecks of cars from all over the Atherton Tablelands. The ugly distorted vehicles ...ART23750
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Half Past Eleven Square, Armentieres
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Maker: Sennett, Henry Joseph
Depicts the central square and buildings in the Northern French town of Armentieres, with a small group of soldiers in the foreground. From April until October 1918, Armentieres was occupied by the Ge...ART92814
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Help England's new homeless
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Maker: Warins Unknown Printers Ltd
patriotism; poster depicting a woman holding a baby, ruined buildings beneath, appeals for aid for victims of air raids inARTV02263
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Hiroshima
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
The centre of the atomic disturbance. The building on the right with the dome was the aiming point for the bomb.ART26374
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Hiroshima
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A view of the epicentre of Hiroshima following the dropping of the Atomic Bomb. People are walking through the debris of broken rubble, with some partially destroyed buildings still standing. The Hi...ART26539
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Hiroshima snow
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A view of the bombed ruins of the city of Hiroshima during snow storm. Pictured in the foreground is a stone lantern, rubble, and some tree branches. On the other side of a body of water is the bomb ...ART26713
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HMAS 'Australia', last hit in Lingayen Gulf
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Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts a twisted and wrecked tower of HMAS 'Australia', which is sustained after an attack. The artist Alan Hall(1919-1979)enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years....ART93349
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HMAS Sydney in action against Italian cruisers
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS Sydney steaming past the crippled Bartolomeo Colleoni in chase of Italian cruiser Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere (out of sight), HMS Hyperion is approaching to rescue survivors and finally sink the wr...ART30095
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HMAS "Sydney" in action with Italian cruiser
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The scene depicts the phase in the action when HMAS 'Sydney' has hit and stopped the Italian cruiser 'Bartolomeo Colleoni' and at 4-5 miles distance is steaming past the vessel in pursuit of the secon...ART23692
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Infantry resting on tank knoll
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts men of the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion among ruins of oil tanks on a hill just inland from their landing point on Red beach.ART22477
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Inside Fort Khiam
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a scene in Khiam, Syria, of a large gun and a building behind it. It is a very rough sketch, with the finer work concentrating on the gun. It is probably an old Krupp gun that was produced d...ART30056
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Interior of the mosque, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the remaining interior structures of a mosque in Balikpapan following destruction caused by bombing.ART22464
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Italian women and children waiting for issue of black bread
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts a group unidentified Italian women and children hungry and homeless waiting in the rain for an issue of black bread from destroyed church Fiorenzuola di Focare, Farno, Italy.ART24343