Chalk study for General Macarthur's leather flying jacket

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number ART25916
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 62.4 x 50.6 cm (irreg)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description charcoal with coloured pastels on paper
Maker Dargie, William
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Date made February 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

Depicts a portrait of General Douglas MacArthur, wearing leather flying jacket. Dargie noted, "For reason which developed later, this study was not used in the final portrait".