Bomber Crash, Rabaul

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Accession Number ART28377.001
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 20 x 16.3 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Hinder, Frank
Place made New Guinea1
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

This is a semi-abstract composition combining exterior and interior views of a crashed aircraft in flames. This is a representation of a crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissance, of which the artist was a passenger.