Wrecked building, Tarakan

Accession Number ART26982
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 43.5 x 30.6 cm; frame: 49.2 x 36.2 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Freedman, Harold
Place made Borneo: Tarakan
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

Wrecked building at Tarakan , Borneo. 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.