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Title

Old trench, French battlefield

1919

Artist

Evelyn Chapman

Australia

25 Oct 1888 – 18 Jul 1961

  • Details

    Other Title
    Old trench, Villers-Bretonneux
    Place where the work was made
    Villers-Bretonneux → Somme → France
    Date
    1919
    Media category
    Painting
    Materials used
    tempera on textured grey paper on cardboard
    Dimensions
    54.0 x 73.3 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.l. corner, dark purple tempera "Evelyn Chapman/ 1919".
    Signed top c. verso on paper on cardboard, blue ink ".../ Evelyn Chapman/ ...".

    Credit
    Gift of the artist's daughter Pamela Thalben-Ball 1976
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    194.1976
    Copyright
    © Estate of the artist

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    Evelyn Chapman

    Works in the collection

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  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 1 exhibition

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 3 publications

    • Art Gallery of New South Wales (Editor), Catalogue of acquisitions 1976, Sydney, 1976, 19 (illus.).

    • Sarah Engledow, Portrait (no.28), 'Lovers of light', pg. 16-21, Canberra, Winter 2008, 19 (colour illus.). NOTE: Illustration is of a related painting titled 'Bunker entrance' (1919) in the Australian War Memorial collection.

    • Anne Gérard-Austin, Look, ‘The luminous brush: Unearthing “little wonders” from their slumbers’, pg. 12-13, Sydney, Apr 2012, 13 (colour illus.).

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