not titled [soldiers in hospital beds for illustration for "Around camp"]

Accession Number ARTI04612
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 21.4 x 34 cm; image: 16.3 x 24.5 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Gardener, Arthur
Place made Australia
Date made 1941-46
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

Two soldiers are pictured sleeping in hospital beds. In the distance a third soldier is sitting up in bed and a group of three people can be seen conversing near him. This drawing was done or inclusion in the army education journal 'Salt.' Arthur Gardener changed his name from Baumgarten after he migrated to Australia at the age of 30 on the 8th of March 1938, landing at Fremantle. "I was prompted to this decision by economic and political reasons, seeing no future for me and my wife in fascistic Austria under Schuschnig's government" he wrote. In Australia, at the age of 58, Private Arthur Gardener, assisted in the efforts of the Second World War on the home front in the 3rd Australian Employment Coy (N303400). Gardener worked as a picket at Mascot Unit Headquarters in Sydney at the time this work was done and spent a lot of time outside his work at the American Red Cross Club where drawing classes were held.

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