Mud track, USA Camp

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen
Accession Number ART25164
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 20 x 23.4 cm; image: 20 x 23.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and watercolour on paper
Maker Rafty, Tony
Place made New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area, New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The 162 Ordnance Medium Maintenance, U.S.A, situated near Launch Jetty, Finschhafen, New Guinea. A few minutes rain and the tracks would become a sea of mud. The sketch gives us an impression of a jeep slogging it's way through the watery mud midst the coconut grove.