Stella Bowen: D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
- Periods:
- To England
- An artist's journey
- Inner worlds
- The return to England
- The war years
Period: The war years
D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
painted in London, 1944–45
oil on canvas 63.5 x 83.8 cm
signed l.r., oil “STELLA BOWEN”, not dated
Australian War Memorial
acquired under official war art scheme, 1944
Stella Bowen immediately picked up on the tension in the air at Binbrook as the men went about their duties, a feeling made more acute by the howling winds sweeping over this Lincolnshire outpost.
In this work, the fixed unseeing gazes of the man and woman in the foreground, quietly pre-occupied as they wait for the planes and men to return, stand in contrast to the warmth of the light and the small comforts of company, food and cigarettes.
Paintings
- Julia
- The house opposite
- Flight from reason
- Embankment gardens
- Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin
- Bomber crew
- Bombing up a Lancaster for Wing Commander Douglas
- Remains of a flying bomb
- Group Captain Hughie Edwards
- D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
- Flying Officer Frederick Syme, Sunderland captain
- Pilot Officer Ronald Warfield
- A Sunderland crew comes ashore at Pembroke Dock (F. Syme, Ron Warfield, Ron Tyson, Eric Genders, Charlie Martin, Spud Murphy, Bob Meade, Merv Pike, Jock Beattie, Curly Rowland and John Bishop)
- At the Churchill Club, large and small worlds
- RAAF airmen at Mongewell Park Medical Rehabilitation Unit
- Private, Gowrie House
- Repatriated prisoner of war is processed
- Brigadier George Langley
- Reception desk at Gowrie House, Eastbourne
- Theaden in Kensington
- [Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]