Place | Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Timor Sea |
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Accession Number | ART91496 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | image: 115 x 153 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | pastel and synthetic polymer paint on paper |
Maker |
Senbergs, Jan |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
Date made | 1998 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Strafing in the water
Description
Jan Senbergs collaborated with Col Madigan, one of the Armidale survivors to create this work which forms part of a series of ten pastel drawings depicting the sinking of HMAS Armidale on 1 December 1942. Here the men who survived the sinking are shown clinging to whatever they could while Japanese aircraft continued to strafe them with machine gun fire.