Swimmer

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number ART91249
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.4 x 25.4 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description coloured crayon with textile dye on coated paper
Maker Nolan, Sidney
Place made United States of America: New York
Date made 1 October 1958
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Gallipoli swimmer.

This work was presented by Sidney Nolan, along with 251 other Nolan's from the 'Gallipoli' series, in memory of the artist's brother Raymond who drowned in 1945 on his return from military service at the end of the Second World War.