Russell Drysdale at war
AddressTreloar Crescent Canberra Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Description
The Australian War Memorial is paying tribute to one of Australia's leading modernist painters, Sir Russell Drysdale, in a small exhibition, Russell Drysdale at war, which opens on 7 February 2012, the centenary of his birth.
Drysdale is best known for his original interpretations of Australia's outback landscape and its people of the late twentieth century, a period of great social change. During the Second World War he also produced a significant collection of works exploring the effects of war and the loneliness and displacement felt by many Australians based in rural communities.