Men of F and H Force on return to Changi

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Accession Number ART26514
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 46.8 x 36.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made c 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A group of figure studies of emaciated men and their limbs and torsos. The figures are of men returned from the Burma-Thailand railway. This is one of a small collection of works on paper by Murray Griffin, a captured official war artist, done in Changi. Over the three years, Griffin's work changes from an optimistic record of camp life, to detached evidence of atrocities and death. The selection also introduces major themes for this section - camp life, making do, the brutality of forced labour.