Place | Asia: Borneo, Tarakan |
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Accession Number | ART26782 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 43.2 x 30.6 cm |
Object type | Painting |
Physical description | oil on canvas on hardboard |
Maker |
Freedman, Harold |
Place made | Borneo: Tarakan |
Date made | 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
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Description
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified airman of No. 1 Airfield Construction Squadron seated. 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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