Victory

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
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

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.