Place | Middle East: Iraq |
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Accession Number | ART29752 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 44x 62 x 4 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | grey cloth-covered card box lined with paper with brown leather pieces laminated to box front and spine inscribed with tooled gold lettering |
Maker |
Connor, Kevin |
Place made | Mesopotamia |
Date made | June 1991 |
Conflict |
Gulf War, 1990-1991 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright |
Iraq. June 1991
Description
A set of sixty drawings in a portfolio box.
- Title page for 'Drawing in Iraq 1991'
- First signs of war, Amman to Baghdad
- 5 p.m. broken down bus 300 kms from Baghdad
- Arrival 1 a.m. figure at bus terminal, Baghdad
- First morning, Baghdad
- Interview at the Ministry of Information building
- Bombed convention centre
- The chemist
- The deserter, Baghdad
- Baghdad looking like a mid-west American city
- Mother Theresa in Baghdad
- Angry guards at the bombed 14th July Bridge
- Bombed 14th July Bridge and the guards
- Soldiers dogs, barbed wire... in the red sky world of Baghdad's summer
- Baghdad, bombed street in the old Christian area, dogs and heat
- Baghdad, soldiers along the Tigris
- Foyer of the Palestine Hotel, where the foreigners stay
- The bombed shelter where so many died, Amiriyah
- Inside the shelter, Amiriyah
- Bombed bridge, dogs and sunset, Baghdad
- Bombed Ministry of Justice building
- Bombed Ministry of Justice building
- Dawn and the road from Baghdad to Karbala and Najaf
- Road block and tanks surrounding Karbala
- Barricade, soldiers and light field gun outside Mosque, Karbala
- Barricade and soldiers outside Mosque, Karbala
- Karbala had the stench of awful happenings
- Karbala had the stench of awful happenings
- Najaf devastation
- Najaf devastation near the Mosque
- Study for the painting 'Na'jaf, Iraq, June, 1991'
- A wagon-load of dismembered ghosts, Najaf, study for 'Najaf, Iraq, June 1991'
- Old woman in the town square at Najaf
- Soldiers outside Mosque in Najaf
- Figure and portrait in city square, Najaf
- Republican Guard officer, Najaf
- Guards and officer outside Mosque, Najaf
- The bread shop
- Road to Basrah
- Journey across southern Iraq
- Journey across southern Iraq
- Broken bridge bombed near Basrah
- Faces in Basrah that speak of dreadful memories
- A man whose family died when his house was bombed in a Basrah suburb
- A man whose family died when his house was bombed in a Basrah suburb
- Jets and suburbia, Basrah
- Inside General Hospital, Basrah
- Self-portrait, drawing in Iraq
- Bombed highway south of Basrah, near the Kuwaiti border
- Bombed highway south of Basrah, rusting tanks, broken car and self drawing
- Rusting tank
- Red Cross trucks waiting at the Iraqi-Jordanian border on the way back to Amman
- Refugees walking in the desert on a starry night
- The Allenby Bridge, Jordan River
- Amman to Jerusalem, view of Jordan River and the West Bank from the bus
- Soldiers on rooftops in Jerusalem
- Eight small drawings around Baghdad