Oil refinery wreckage, Balikpapan

Place Asia: Borneo, Balikpapan
Accession Number ART26810
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 43.2 x 53.2 cm; image: 27 x 37 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on composition board
Maker Newton, Max
Place made Borneo: Balikpapan
Date made September 1945
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 burnt-out oil refineries and storage tanks at Balikpapan. Max (Thomas Maxwell) Newton enlisted with the AIF. He was seconded to the RAAF War History Section as an Official War Artist in 1945. He travelled to Labuan and Morotai as part of his appointment, where he recorded aspects of the RAAF involvement in the Pacific during the Second World War.