Shared Experience: The sleeping soldier
Francis Lymburner
The sleeping soldier
oil on canvas
36.8 x 65.2
ART28102
In this intriguing work full of darkness and mystery, Lymburner’s sleeping soldier is a solitary figure in the landscape. The only sign of habitation is a white tent with flags fluttering in the distance. Our imaginations are prompted to speculate on the recumbent figure. Has he fallen asleep from exhaustion after endless marching and training, or is he recovering from a night of carousing?
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