Change trains at Hiroshima

Place Asia: Japan, Hiroshima, Hiroshima
Accession Number ART94067
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

Two Australians in greatcoats and slouch hats wait to board a steam train at Hiroshima. 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.