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In 1917 he was finally granted permission to accompany the Australian Imperial Force to record the activities of its soldiers and thus became the first Australian official war artist. The Australian War Records Section was created in 1917, largely as a result of lobbying by Bean, to implement the Commonwealth's war art scheme, and ten ...
In 1941 Cook moved to Australia [7] to teach at the East Sydney Technical College (ESTC, later called the National Art School) until 1949, his employment interrupted by his WW2 camouflage work for the Department of the Interior, then from March 1944, he was official war artist for the Australian Comforts Fund, in Papua New Guinea.
Crozier (centre) at Imbros. Francis Rossiter Crozier (c. July 1883 – 22 October 1948) was a war records artist who is represented in the Australian War Memorial's art collection along with other Australian official war artists such as H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton, George Washington Lambert and Ivor Hele.
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George Frederick Henry Bell OBE (1 December 1878 – 22 October 1966) was an Australian painter and teacher, critic, portraitist, violinist and war artist [1] who contributed significantly to the advancement of the local Modern movement from the 1920s to the 1930s.
The Australian Academy of Art was a conservative Australian government-authorised art organisation which operated for ten years between 1937 and 1946 and staged annual exhibitions. Its demise resulted from opposition by Modernist artists, especially those associated with the Contemporary Art Society , though the influence of the Academy ...
Member Art Committee of the Australian War Memorial; President of Victorian Art Society 1933–1935 [12] Member of the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board; He was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours list of 1947. [13] Examples of his work are held by all State and many Regional galleries. [14]
Conway Bown with the subject of his portrait, Brigadier John Caligari, Commander 3rd Brigade, at the Percival Portrait Awards, Townsville, 2008. Conway Bown was born in Sydney and educated at The Scots College before commissioning in the Australian Army in 1990 graduating as an Army helicopter pilot in 1992.