Place | Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne |
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Accession Number | ART19836 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | framed: 27.1 x 133.1 cm; unframed: 22 x 120.8 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on paper on plywood |
Maker |
Bell, George |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1922 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Victory
Description
Depicts George Bell's entry for the State Library of Victoria mural competition, held in 1922. The mural design was one of 13 entrants by artists including Hilda Rix Nicholas, George Lambert, A H Fullwood, Napier Waller, H S Power Charles Wheeler and John Longstaff. H S Power was the winner of the mural competition and George Lambert was second. George Bell's mural design depicts soldiers, nurses and an injured man being carried on a stretcher on the right side of the mural, while the left side features a woman and child, a farmer with a sheep , soldiers with artillery and officers in uniform. In the centre of the mural is the word 'VICTORY' held aloft by two female figures with wings.