Title unknown (two shirtless men in a tent using a bench-mounted vice grip; gas tanks leaning against the tent walls around them); possibly the work first exhibited as Armourers Workshop, 1945 [August], by Max Newton
Identifier
129.0024
Title
Title unknown (two shirtless men in a tent using a bench-mounted vice grip; gas tanks leaning against the tent walls around them); possibly the work first exhibited as Armourers Workshop, 1945 [August], by Max Newton
Date
1945 [August]
Creator
Max Newton (1919-1975)
Type
still image
Format
ink and wash on paper; dimensions unknown
Source
Whereabouts unknown; photograph held among the Max Newton papers, private collection, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Description
Signed and dated in black pen lower right, recto: ‘Max Newton 45'.
Subject
War artists -- Australia -- 20th century. Australia -- History, Military. War in art. World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war. World War, 1939-1945 -- Malaysia.
Rights
© Max Newton Estate.
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Contributor
Jane Eckett
Original Format
painting
Where created
Labuan, Malaysia [?]
Provenance
Commissioned 1945.
Exhibited
(?) RAAF War Paintings Exhibition [Harold Freedman, Eric Thake, Max Newton], Canberra: Royal Australian Air Force; exhibition toured Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney: National Art Gallery of New South Wales; Brisbane: Queensland National Art Gallery; Adelaide: National Gallery of South Australia; Perth: Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia; Hobart: The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,touring exhibition, 1946, catalogue no. 87 (as Armourers Workshop, watercolour, August 1945, Armourers work on aircraft repairs in shabbily constructed quarters at No. 22 R.S.U. Labaun).
Photograph (i)
Photographer unknown; scan of photograph courtesy Tony Lee and the Newton family
Date submitted
29 December 2020
Date modified
29 December 2020
Citation
Max Newton (1919-1975), “Title unknown (two shirtless men in a tent using a bench-mounted vice grip; gas tanks leaning against the tent walls around them); possibly the work first exhibited as Armourers Workshop, 1945 [August], by Max Newton,” The Abbey Art Centre Digital Repository, accessed July 17, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/abbey-art-centre/items/show/683.