ART22894 - Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART22894
- Title
- Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
- Artist
- Friend, Donald
- Object type
- Painting
- Place made
- Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
- Date made
- 1946
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurement
- overall: 46.4 x 61.3 cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- Appointed an official war artist in 1945, Friend served in Labuan, Morotai and Balikpapan in Borneo between 23 May and 10 September. The work depicts a war-ravaged landscape at Balikpapan.
