Home Art Collection Works Collection Search Advanced search Works created between 1940 and 1945 (563) works on display (23) works with images (415) Filter by: Collection area Origin Media Date/period Artist A–Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sort by: artist surname oldest first (excludes undated works) newest first (excludes undated works) title image availability accession number Freda Robertshaw A windy day, Carlon's Farm 1945 7616 Willy Ronis Le vigneron girondin 1945, printed later 1110.1996 Kurt Schwitters Out of the dark 1943 131.2004 Roderick Shaw Capricornia 1945 7719 Arnold Shore Still life 1940 7134 Arnold Shore The park 1941 7178 Arnold Shore Mt. Macedon 1942 242.1982 Arnold Shore Country residence 1943 7365 Jeffrey Smart Seated nude 1942 436.2001 Jeffrey Smart Keswick siding 1945 193.1982 Jeffrey Smart The wasteland II 1945 7825 Eric John Smith Self portrait 1944 7448 Jack Carington Smith Tasmanian sheep country 1940 7133 Jack Carington Smith By the sea 1943 7362 Jack Carington Smith Blue, yellow and white 1945 7533 Joshua Smith Still life 1941 OA13.1962 Joshua Smith Portrait group 1942 7367 Joshua Smith Dame Mary Gilmore 1943 7619 Ruskin Spear Spring 1945 7839 Stanley Spencer The scrapheap 1944 7543 On display – Naala Nura, ground level, 20th-century galleries Ronald Hewison Steuart Hawkesbury River 1943 7361 Ronald Hewison Steuart Autumn Lagoon 1945 7540 David Strachan Drawing for the painting 'The fisher family ' 1945 416.2000 David Strachan Drawing for the painting 'The fisher family ' 1945 417.2000 David Strachan Fisher family 1945 7536 David Strachan The blue vase 1945 7572 Roland Strasser Mother of pearl, Bali 1940 8093 Roland Strasser The blue fan, Bali 1940 8141 Sergej Strunnikow Soja 1941, printed later 209.1997 Graham Sutherland Devastation: burnt out offices 1941 8076 Takeda Shintarō Hozu valley in summer 1941 8.1997.8 Taninaka Yasunori Ôkawa bank 1940 8.1997.28 Eric Thake Archaeopteryx 1941 OA6.1964 Eric Thake The birds of paradise 1945 7835 Eric Thake Wrecked house, Darwin 1945 7926 Dorothy Thornhill Landscape 1941 433.2001 Dorothy Thornhill Figure on a chaise longue 1941 275.1986 Dorothy Thornhill Reclining torso 1940, 1949? 8191 Dorothy Thornhill Solandra 1945 7659 Jessie Traill Blackout 1940 329.2021 Barbara Tribe Squadron Leader R. H. Gibbes 1943 219.2015 Barbara Tribe Rear Gunner RAAF (Warrant Officer Norman Williams) 1943 220.2015 Albert Tucker Theatre (recto); Study for 'The hanged man' (verso) 1943 451.1990 Albert Tucker Portrait 1 early 1940s 206.2017 Albert Tucker Portrait 2 early 1940s 207.2017 Albert Tucker Woman's head early 1940s 208.2017 Albert Tucker Self portrait with bed 1940 210.2017 Unknown Sidney Nolan aged 23 1940, 1967, printed later ARC3.651.9 Unknown Installation view of Margaret Preston works in the 'Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition', 1942, National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1942 ARC30.196.2 Unknown Installation view of William Dobell works in the 'Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition', 1942, National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1942 ARC30.196.12 Unknown Installation view of William Dobell works in the 'Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition', 1942, National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1942 ARC30.196.13 Unknown Robert Klippel working on a model naval ship March 1943 ARC409.1.13 Unknown Robert Klippel's model of HMAS Bombo 1941 ARC409.1.12 Unknown Norfold 1942 ARC409.1.9 Unknown Robert Klippel in the Australian Navy, at Snapper Island, Sydney 1940 ARC409.1.287 Unknown Luncheon given by the Board of Trustees to celebrate the 90th birthday of Julian Rossi Ashton 27 January 1941 ARC5.1.53 Unknown Julian Rossi Ashton with his portrait by George W. Lambert 27 January 1941 ARC5.1.55 Unknown The three Bs: Bruce Elder, Bill Menzies and Robert Klippel on leave July 1940 ARC409.1.14 Unknown Robert Klippel and Bruce Elder on leave from the Navy 1940 ARC409.1.15 Unknown Robert Klippel asleep on a cot during leave from the Navy July 1940 ARC409.1.16 1 2 3 4 5 6 7