Place | Oceania: New Guinea1 |
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Accession Number | ART26773 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Framed: 46 cm x 58.7 cm x 6 cm; Unframed: 32 cm x 43.2 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on hardboard |
Maker |
Freedman, Harold |
Place made | New Guinea1 |
Date made | 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
Swapping yarns
Description
Depicts a group of unidentified men sitting in lighted tent. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.
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