Not titled [Two prisoners working in garden (frontispiece for proposed 8th Division book)]

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Accession Number ART28404.002
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 18.5 x 13.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and coloured inks and gouache over pencil on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1945-1946
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Colour sketch of two Australian prisoners of war toiling in a garden. Originally designed to be the frontispiece for a proposed book about the 8th Division AIF's experiences in Malaya, it was drawn after Murray Griffin was repatriated in 1945.