Shared Experience: A Child Bomb-Victim Receiving Penecillin Treatment
Ethel Gabain
A Child Bomb-Victim Receiving Penecillin Treatment
oil no canvas
76.2 x 63.5cm
IWM ART LD 5775
Gabain’s image of the child being treated with penicillin shows her isolated, amid weights and levers and drips that balance and sustain her. However, the overall impression here is of someone safe, protected and, as she engages the viewer, hopeful. Penicillin saved her leg from amputation. This was one of a series of paintings commissioned to display scientific developments. Gabain had lost a child during the war and was herself in poor health when she undertook the commission.
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