Transport problems in Malaya

Place Asia: Malaya
Accession Number ART30101
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 38.6 x 54.7 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour over pencil heightened with white on paper
Maker Herbert, Harold
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts a reconstructed view of transport problems in Malaya, and based on photographs. The artist wrote in a letter on 31 August 1942 of the work '...watercolour of an incident in Malaya...I have not adhered strictly to the photographs...as far as composition is concerned...and had to rely...on memory impressions of Malaya's colours as seen from a few flying boat landings.' The painting was reproduced in the 1942 Army, Navy and Air Force Christmas book 'Soldiering On'. The accompanying caption read, 'An Australian vehicle, bogged in a stream in Malaya, being towed out by a recovery van. Transport problems of this nature were frequent!'