Sketchbook

Artist sketch book of portraits and figure studies American Red Cross Club, Sydney, 1943, comprising of 28 leaflets, 9 loose leaflets and 37 compositions, with hard grey cover and brown binding tape. Arthur Gardener changed his name from Baumgarten after he migrated to Australia at the age of 30 on the 8th of March 1938, landing at Fremantle. "I was prompted to this decision by economic and political reasons, seeing no future for me and my wife in fascistic Austria under Schuschnig's government" he wrote. In Australia, at the age of 58, Private Arthur Gardener, assisted in the efforts of the Second World War on the home front in the 3rd Australian Employment Coy (N303400). This sketch belongs to an artist sketch book contains portrait and figure studies from the American Red Cross Club, Sydney, 1943. The works within in this sketchbook were done while Gardener was working as a picket at Mascot Unit Headquarters in Sydney. 'Whilst at camp in Mascot, [Gardener] preferred to spend his evenings, when not on picket duty, at the American Club, where painting and drawing classes had been organised.'

• Not titled [portrait of a young man seated wearing a suit]
• Not titled [portrait of an Australian soldier wearing full uniform with slouch hat]
• Not titled [portrait of a seated young woman with patterned dress]
• Not titled [portrait of a young man]
• Not titled [portrait of an American Corporal in the Technical Division]
• Not titled [portrait of a young American sailor]
• Not titled [three men standing in a group two of which are of sailors]
• Not titled [Two figure studies]
• Not titled [Profile of a man's face]
• Not titled [Sailor seated on a chair]
• Not titled [Sailor sleeping on a chair]
• Not titled [Portrait of a sailor with moustache seated]
• Not titled [Portrait of a young sailor wearing a watch]
• Not titled [Portrait of an older man wearing glasses]
• Not titled [Portrait of a woman seated in a chair]
• Not titled [Drawing class]
• Not titled [Portrait of a woman]
• Not titled [Portrait of a Red Cross nurse]
• Not titled [Portrait of a US Airforce officer]
• Not titled [Portrait of a woman in Army Services uniform]
• Not titled [Portrait study of a woman's head]
• Not titled [Portrait of an older male soldier looking up]
• Not titled [Study of a woman's head]
• Not titled [Portrait of a young man with collar]
• Not titled [Portrait of a seated man in a dressing gown]
• Not titled [Portrait of a woman with short wavy hair]
• Not titled [Portrait of a US sailor in uniform]
• Not titled [Portrait of a sailor with furrowed brows]
• Not titled [Two studies of women's heads]
• Not titled [Profile of a US sailor resting his chin on his hand]
• Not titled [Portrait of a woman from US Military Services]
• not titled [Portrait of a US sailor with hat]
• Not titled [Portrait of a woman from US Military Services]
• Not titled [Portrait of a sailor posing in uniform with his chin resting on his hand]
• Not titled [Study of a man's face]
• Not titled [Side profile of a US Army soldier]
• not titled [portrait of an American sailor]