Place | Asia: Korea |
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Accession Number | ART90321.009 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 30.1 x 21 cm (page) |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | carbon pencil on paper |
Maker |
Hele, Ivor |
Place made | Australia: South Australia, Aldinga, Korea |
Date made | 1952 |
Conflict |
Korea, 1950-1953 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC |
Washing jeeps; Loading barbwire; verso: [Soldiers walking down a hill]
Eleventh page of artist's sketchbook containing six drawings. The upper right (top) drawing depicts two men on a road way , one carrying a sack on his shoulder. The upper left drawing depicts a covered truck about to be overtaken by a jeep on a roadway.The drawing in the upper right (below) depicts workmen bending over, picking up coils of barbed wire. The central drawing (left) depicts a group of men washing jeeps on a roadway, set in a landscape. The drawing in the lower (right) depicts two men with bare chests (hauling rope?) , while the drawing in the lower left depicts groups of standing and seated men on a road in a mountainous landscape. Verso: contains one drawing. The drawing depicts a number of soldiers, one carrying a gun on his shoulder, walking down a hillside.