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Accession Number | ART19587 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | framed: 57.8 x 72.6 x 3.5 cm; unframed: 41.8 x 56.3 cm; sight: 40 x 55 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | tempera and oil on felt paper |
Maker |
Chapman, Evelyn |
Place made | France |
Date made | 1919 |
Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work |
Graves in a battlefield
Description
Makeshift war graves in a battlefield in France. The bright red flowers suggest vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of France with her father, who was attached to the New Zealand War Graves Commission. She was one of the first Australian female artist to have the opportunity to depict the devastation of the battlefields of the western front.