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Australian official war artists, 1916–1918 by George Coates, 1920. Oil on canvas, 124.2 x 104.5 cm. The group portrait presents, left to right: front — George Bell; standing — John Longstaff, Charles Bryant, George Washington Lambert, A. Henry Fullwood, James Quinn, H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton; and seated back — Will Dyson, Fred Leist.
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 ...
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.
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.
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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.
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]
Edmund Arthur Harvey (1907–1994): British-born Australian artist; Ponch Hawkes (born 1946): photographer; Elaine Haxton (1909–1999): painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist; Louise Hearman (born 1963): figurative painter; Ivor Hele (1912–1993): war artist for the Australian War Memorial, five times Archibald Prize winner