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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.
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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.
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]
Anzac, the Landing 1915 by George Lambert (1920–1922).. Lambert became an official Australian war artist in 1917 during the First World War. [2] His painting Anzac, the landing 1915 of the landings on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, is the largest painting at the Australian War Memorial collection.