Place | Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney |
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Accession Number | ART28499 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 21.6 cm x 28 cm |
Object type | Sketchbook |
Physical description | pencil on paper |
Maker |
Gardener, Arthur |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Date made | 1943 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright |
Not titled [sketch book with 16 leaflets 5 containing portrait and figure studies from the American Red Cross Club, Sydney, 1943]
Arthur Gardener changed his name from Baumgarten after he migrated to Australia at the age of 30 on the 8th of March 1938, landing at Fremantle. "I was prompted to this decision by economic and political reasons, seeing no future for me and my wife in fascistic Austria under Schuschnig's government" he wrote. In Australia, at the age of 58, Private Arthur Gardener, assisted in the efforts of the Second World War on the home front in the 3rd Australian Employment Coy (N303400). This Artist sketch book contains portrait and figure studies from the American Red Cross Club, Sydney, 1943. The works within in this sketchbook were done while Gardener was working as a picket at Mascot Unit Headquarters in Sydney. 'Whilst at camp in Mascot, [Gardener] preferred to spend his evenings, when not on picket duty, at the American Club, where painting and drawing classes had been organised.' It comprises of 16 leaflets and 15 compositions. The sketchbook has a hard grey cover, dark blue printed text, red binding and a printed image of a stag on the verso.
- Not titled [profile of a man]
- Not titled [rough sketch of a woman in profile]
- Not titled [A group of people talking]
- Not titled [profile of Australian soldier wearing slouch hat]
- Not titled [profile of a pilot from the Royal Australian Air Force in uniform]
- Not titled [Profile of a woman with curly hair in army uniform]
- Not titled [side profile of a woman with curly hair wearing army uniform]
- Not titled [a man wearing a wide brimmed hat is depicted sleeping]
- Not titled [A member of the Royal Australian Navy wearing glasses]
- Not titled [Side profile of a man with open collar]
- Not titled [Soldier in uniform with combed hair]
- Not titled [profile of a sailor from the Royal Australian Navy with glasses]
- Not titled [profile of a young sailor from the Royal Australian Navy, page 13]
- Not titled [side profile of a young sailor from the Royal Australian Navy, page 15]
- Not titled [Classroom with pupils]