Shared Experience: V.E. Day Street Party, 1945

Art and War

• Introduction
• Battle
• Work
• Leisure
• Service
• Casualties
• Captivity
• Home
• Artists

There is joy and exhilaration evident in this painting. Rationing is still in place but the table is all cakes and tarts. The coloured streamers and flags are sparse decorations but the sense of relief is clear. Nothing concerns or worries the gathered guests, celebrating in the street in a natural response to the end of the war in Europe.

Paintings

• Telephone exchange
  Harold Freedman
• Mess Deck
  Jack Nichols
• Moresby picture show
  Charles Bush
• Airmen In A Village Pub Yorkshire
  Miller Brittain
• Canadian Airmen in a Park
  Goodridge Roberts
• You'll Get Used To It
  T.R. MacDonald
• Waterloo Station
  Colin Colahan
• The fairground, Sydney 1944
  Herbert Badham
• Soldiers Bathing
  Will Ogilvie
• V.E. Day Street Party, 1945
  Edwin La Dell