AWM Collection Record: ART90767

AWM image ART90767

ID Number: ART90767
Title: Koala gargoyle
Maker: Bowles, Leslie; Ewers, Raymond Boultwood
Object type: Sculpture
Place made: Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made: c 1939 (Date cast); c. 1939
Physical description: plaster
Measurements: 30 cm x 30 cm x 18 cm
Summary: This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a koala. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 and 1941 the plaster cast was used as the template for a stonemason to carve an in-situ sandstone gargoyle in the cloisters of the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial.
Copyright: AWM copyright
Related subject: Animals; Australian War Memorial; Buildings; Sculpture
Related place: Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra

Last-Modified: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:37:21 GMT

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