Creatures of the air

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number ART26771
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 69.8 x 91.4 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Freedman, Harold
Place made New Guinea1: Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Bell Airacobra dumped at Moresby take on an atmosphere of strange bird-like creatures of another age. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here from 1944 to 1945, in Borneo, Noemfoor and around Australia.