Shared Experience: Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
Donald Friend
Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
pen and coloured ink, brush and wash, crayon with scratching back, pencil on paper
51.1 x 68cm
On VE Day Friend went in search of revelry, only to be disappointed. However, the following evening he found “an amazing scene”.
When I got home I made drawings of it … I’m afraid the war art people will loathe them. I guess they’ll dislike all my stuff: it’s probably destined to moulder for a century or so in the cellars until some subsequent war unearths it as antique bellicose curiosa or “a superb national heritage” or something.
Paintings
- The sleeping soldier
Francis Lymburner - Battle of Arakan, 1943
Anthony Gross - Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection
Carel Weight - Potato Peelers
Leonard Brooks - Tocumwal - loading the train
Yosl Bergner - Dream of the latrine sitter
Sidney Nolan - Soldier
Russell Drysdale - A Bofors Gun, Algiers
Henry Carr - 2/10th Australian Commando Squadron: wash and clean up
Ivor Hele - Smoko time with the AWLA
Grace Taylor - Early Morning P.T.
E.J. Hughes - CWAC Beauty Parlor #1
Pegi Nicol MacLeod - Ballet of wind and rain
Colin Colahan - Fatigue
Ralph Walker - Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
Donald Friend