Camouflaged oil tanks

Place Oceania: Australia, Tasmania
Accession Number ART23526
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 39.2 x 45.5 cm Frame: 53.6 x 60cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on hardboard
Maker Bush, Charles
Place made Australia: Tasmania
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Camouflaged oil tanks at Derwent River port, Hobart. In December 1943 Bush was deployed to Horbart to observe the Volunteer Defence Corp, and make illustrations for the Australian War Memorial publication On Guard.

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