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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.
Born in Ballarat, Victoria, Longstaff was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, studying art at the Ballarat School of Mines and privately before joining the military and serving in the Boer War as a member of the South African Light Horse. [citation needed] He was the cousin of portrait painter Sir John Longstaff.
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]
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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.
He was appointed an official war artist on the Western Front in 1917 and did many paintings for the Australian government. [1] Sixty-nine of his paintings are in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. In 1922, he returned to Australia, and in 1923 was sent to the mandated territories in New Guinea to paint scenes of the occupation by the ...
Rafty was one of the founding members of the Australian Black and White Artists Club and served as its president; for 23 years he was on the board of directors of the Sydney Journalists Club, where he also held the position of President; he also served the Australian War Correspondents’ Association, and for many years, led the Australian War ...
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