Homefront - Art
The Australian War Memorial has approximately 38,000 works of art in the collection, from paintings, posters, and digital works, to mosaics, textiles, and sculptures. Below is a small selection relating to Second World War experiences on the home front.
Transport Driver (Aircraftwoman Florence Miles)
by Nora Heysen
The Fairground, Sydney
by Herbert Badham
Sydney Graving Dock,
by Herbert McClintock
World War II Supply Ships, Darwin,
by Paddy Fordham Wainburranga
Join us in a Victory Job,
by Maurice Bramley and the Department of National Service
View more Second World War posters in the Hearts and Minds resource
Group of VADs
by William Dargie
The Billy Boy
by William Dobell
The Flag in the Room
by Grace Cossington-Smith
Bombing of Darwin
by Susan Wanji Wanji
First Air-Raid on Australia, 19 February 1942
by Roy Hodgkinson
Soldier and Women
by Sidney Simon
Land Army Girls on Cotton
by Grace Taylor
Gadgets and Components,
by Dore Hawthorne
Mother and Child
by Karl Duldig
