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| Accession Number | ART23218 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 37.8 x 41 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pen and ink with wash on paper |
| Maker |
Friend, Donald |
| Place made | New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Lae |
| Date made | 1945 |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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From my window at Lae
Description
View from the artist's window of a native village in Lae, New Guinea. Donald Friend was in Lae the last week of May 1945. Of Lae he wrote in his Diary 24 May 1945; ' From the air it looked romantic, tropical, enchanted. Like Africa. From the ground it looked merely tropical. Steaming hot...everything everywhere seemed to be profusely sprouting and budding and putting forth a peculiarly poisonous rich green. The landscape was untrammeled Gauguin designed without the artistic selection of the Master's hand, lush and poisonous. Lae itself is pretty extensive- practically a city. I was deposited in a hut- a comfortless dump, with some other damp and disgruntled officers...I'm not madly infatuated with Lae. It's disturbing, everything everywhere busily, hysterically sprouting and burgeoning the rankest green.'
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