Frank Hodgkinson
(Australia 28 Apr 1919–20 Oct 2001)
- Title
- Japanese soldiers killed D-day
- Year
- 1945
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
-
22.4 x 32.9cm sight
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Frank Hodgkinson ‘45".
- Credit
- Gift of Kate Hodgkinson, the artist's widow 2004
- Accession number
- 105.2004
- Copyright
- © Frank Hodgkinson Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
D-Day, Balikpapan is a study of the corpses of two Japanese soldiers. Drawn in Balikpapan, Borneo, the artist drew his subject in haste - he was discovered and shot at as he finished the drawing.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
- Bibliography (1)
-
'The quick and the dead' by Jill Sykes, pg. 46., Look Jun 2006, Jun 2006, 46 (colour illus.).
