Lawson's wartime timber yard, Tully

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland
Accession Number ART25599
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 20.3 x 33 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description lithographic crayon and colour pencil on paper
Maker Curtis, R Emerson
Place made Australia: Queensland, North Queensland
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Lawson's wartime timber mill at Tully, North Queensland. The huge kauri logs seen in the foreground will be stripped into plywood sheets by a rotary lathe. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Emerson Curtis undertook a three month tour of Queensland. Travelling mostly by train he captured a rich visual record of the extensive wartime activities, people and industry of this ' frontier ' state.