To Paint a War. The Lives of the Australian Artists who painted the Great War, 1914-1918
Bowral, Altior Books, 2017.
Quarto, viii, 240 pages with 142 illustrations (many of them colour reproductions of artworks).
Simulated leather lettered in blind in the front cover and spine; a fine copy with the fine colour pictorial dustwrapper (featuring artwork by Hilda Rix Nicholas).
The deluxe limited edition (the print run is not stated, but we know it to be 500 copies); this copy is signed by the author. The trade edition, a paperback, was published in the same year by Thames and Hudson. 'The Australian artists who painted World War I approached their subject personally, in ways that reflected their experience of the war. Grace Cossington Smith painted on the home front. Hilda Rix Nicholas suffered personal loss beyond words. Tom Roberts, George Coates and Arthur Streeton served as wardsmen in a military hospital in London. George Lambert travelled to Anzac Cove in 1919 to make the definitive record of the war at Gallipoli. Some contributed as members of the official war artists' scheme. Others painted as eyewitnesses of the unfolding tragedy. Yet others painted from their hearts' (dustwrapper blurb). Other principal artists discussed are Dora Meeson and Will Dyson, but the works of many others are included.
Item #118535
Price (AUD):
$75.00