Australian official war artists are those who have been expressly employed by either the Australian War Memorial (AWM) or the Army Military History Section. These artist soldiers depicted some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how war shapes lives.
Artworks by Arthur Streeton and sculptures by Web Gilbert on display at the Australian War Memorial in 2012
Arthur Streeton: Amiens, the key of the west, oil-on-canvas, completed in 1919.
Captain Conway Bown, Australian Army Official War Artist, Iraq, 2006
Will Longstaff
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William Frederick Longstaff was an Australian painter and war artist best known for his works commemorating those who died in the First World War.
Menin Gate at Midnight, 1927
8th August, 1918, 1918–19