ART09633 - Evacuation
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART09633
- Title
- Evacuation
- Artists
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- Anderson, Wallace;
- Gregory, E J;
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Place made
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
- Date made
- 1925
- Medium
- bronze
- Measurement
- overall: 82.2 x 50.1 x 37.5 cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- The first sculpture acquired for the Memorial's art collection. The figure represents the ideal Australian soldier at Gallipoli, leaning against a broken gun carriage, with his foot placed on a Turkish flag. Clay version made in 1925, plaster made in 1926 and purchased by the Memorial, then cast into bronze in Melbourne in 1927.
