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Evelyn Chapman

(Australia 25 Oct 1888–18 Jul 1961)

Title
Old trench, French battlefield
Other titles:
Old trench, Villers-Bretonneux
Place of origin
Villers-BretonneuxSommeFrance
Year
1919
Media category
Painting
Materials used
tempera on textured grey paper on cardboard
Dimensions

54.0 x 73.3cm 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
Accession number
194.1976
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (3)

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

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

Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Editor), Catalogue of acquisitions 1976, Domain, 1976, 19 (illus.).