Shared Experience: Tragic Landscape

Art and War

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

“I remember the paratrooper lying in a [Deventer] field,” recalled Colville in a 1980 interview. “He was about twenty. They [the Germans] would fight right to the very end; they had put up a tremendous fight until they were all killed.”

Paintings

• Bomber crew
  Stella Bowen
• Battlefield burial of three NCOs
  Ivor Hele
• Tragic Landscape
  Alex Colville
• Japanese dead from suicide raid, Labuan
  Donald Friend
• A Child Bomb-Victim Receiving Penecillin Treatment
  Ethel Gabain
• Natives carrying wounded
  Sali Herman
• A Saline Bath, RAF Hospital
  A.R. Thomson
• Face Burns, Sgt James F. Gourley, RAF, 536215
  Charles Goldhamer
• Bombed Out
  Will Ogilvie
• Wrecked Lodestar
  Eric Thake
• Bomber crash
  Frank Hinder