Title unknown (servicemen in a tent pouring drinks from kegs), possibly the work exhibited as Grog Night in an Airmen's Tent, 1945 September [?], by Max Newton

129.0025 Newton 065.tif

Identifier

129.0025

Title

Title unknown (servicemen in a tent pouring drinks from kegs), possibly the work exhibited as Grog Night in an Airmen's Tent, 1945 September [?], by Max Newton

Date

1945 September [?]

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, or Balikpapan, Borneo, or Morotai Island, Netherlands East Indies [?]

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. 103 (as Grog Night in an Airmen's Tent, drawing, September 1945).

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 (servicemen in a tent pouring drinks from kegs), possibly the work exhibited as Grog Night in an Airmen's Tent, 1945 September [?], by Max Newton,” The Abbey Art Centre Digital Repository, accessed November 16, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/abbey-art-centre/items/show/684.