Abandoned torpedo factory

Place Asia: Japan
Accession Number ART94065
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 48.5 cm x 63 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Waite, Allan George
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c.1950-1959
Conflict British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Scene inside an torpedo factory, showing abandoned and partially destroyed munitions. This image was painted in the 1950s from a photograph taken in 1946 while Waite was stationed in Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces.