Exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Australian Official War Artists

25. A N AU S T RAL I AN NUR S I NG 31: A B L OWN BRIDGE. SISTER. Oil. Oil. Demolition by the retreating Italian Army on the Tobruk-Derna road, Feb Painted in the Middle East, August- ruary, 1941. September, 1941. 32. DEBUS S I NG IN A DESERT DUST-STORM. 26. A 2 5 - P O U N D E R IN AC T I ON . Oil. Oil. This picture convincingly conveys the Near Sollum, in the Western Desert, feeling of wind, movement and dust. May, 1941. 33. S NA T CH I NG A S H O R T RESPITE. 27. TOBRUK. Oil. Oil. Weary Australians riding in the back Painted from a colour sketch and of a motor transport. detailed drawings made in Tobruk at the beginning of February, 1941, two weeks 34. S T R E T C H E R B E AR E R S , LIBYA. after the town had been captured. Oil. 3 5 . ITALIAN PR I SONERS SURREN- 28. CAMPA I GNER IN LIBYA. DERING, LIBYA. Oil. This picture, which was painted in 36. O N T H E R O A D T O DERNA. Tobruk in January, 1941, shows a tired Pencil Drawing. Digger after he and his company had covered fifty miles on foot in two days, Troops waiting for a lift. with only one meal to sustain them. 37. S TUDY O F A S E A T E D DIGGER. Charcoal Drawing. 29. E N EMY G U N S , TOBRUK, F EBRUARY , 1941. Oil. HAROLD B. HERBERT. A captured naval battery which formed 38. T H E T O W N , M E R S A MATRUH. part of the Italian coastal defences at Tobruk. Water Colour. 3 9 . A I R I NG B L ANK E T S , QASTINA. 30. CASUALTY CL EAR I NG STATION, Water Colour. M E R S A M A T R U H , MAY , 1941. Oil. 4 0 . G A Z A R I DG E CAMP. Water Colour. Wounded in an underground C.C.S. awaiting the arrival of the night hospital 41. R O U T E MARCH. train. Water Colour. / V. MU R R AY G R I F F I N - S e l f Portrait. 8