Home Art Collection Works Collection Search Advanced search Works in the Australian art collection area created between 1940 and 1945 (399) works on display (23) works with images (322) 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 Margaret Preston The bark bag 1943 DA45.1964 Margaret Preston Waratah etc 1943 7324 Margaret Preston Aboriginal design, with Sturt's Pea 1943 7325 Margaret Preston Black and white 1943 7326 Margaret Preston The lighthouse 1945 DA44.1964 Thea Proctor The bay 1942 7328 Peter Purves Smith From a window in Pimlico (Battersea Power Station) 1940 152.1986 James Quinn George Bell (artist and critic) 1940 6933 Image not available Max Ragless Back of the mill 1941 7184 Lloyd Rees The foreshores at Northwood 1942 OA9.1968 Lloyd Rees Evening landscape, Orange 1943 7364 Lloyd Rees Church at Lane Cove 1945 7578 Lloyd Rees Study of trees and fence, Northwood Point early 1940s 11.2012 Freda Robertshaw A windy day, Carlon's Farm 1945 7616 Image not available John Salvana Sunshine and shadow 1944 7426 Image not available John Salvana Landscape, Beecroft 1945 8005 Roderick Shaw Capricornia 1945 7719 Image not available Roderick Shaw Bathurst Island boys 1944 8646 Image not available Albert John Sherman Jewels 1943 7385 Image not available Albert John Sherman Gordonias 1945 7613 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 Keswick siding 1945 193.1982 Jeffrey Smart The wasteland II 1945 7825 Jeffrey Smart Seated nude 1942 436.2001 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 Portrait group 1942 7367 Joshua Smith Dame Mary Gilmore 1943 7619 Joshua Smith Still life 1941 OA13.1962 On display – South Building, lower level 2 Image not available Lance Vaiben Solomon Terminus St. Liverpool 1943 7386 Ronald Hewison Steuart Hawkesbury River 1943 7361 Ronald Hewison Steuart Autumn Lagoon 1945 7540 David Strachan Fisher family 1945 7536 David Strachan The blue vase 1945 7572 David Strachan Drawing for the painting 'The fisher family ' 1945 416.2000 David Strachan Drawing for the painting 'The fisher family ' 1945 417.2000 Image not available Roland Strasser Mother of pearl, Bali 1940 8093 Image not available Roland Strasser The blue fan, Bali 1940 8141 Image not available Alan Sumner Christmas morn 1945 7698 Eric Thake Archaeopteryx 1941 OA6.1964 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Eric Thake The birds of paradise 1945 7835 Eric Thake Wrecked house, Darwin 1945 7926 Image not available Eric Thake The itchy owl 1941 DA39.1967 Image not available Eric Thake Then wrought a tomb and slept 1942 DA40.1967 Image not available Eric Thake The habitat of the Dodo 1943 DA46.1967 Image not available Eric Thake Strange spectacle 1944 DA47.1967 Image not available Eric Thake What a cow! 1945 DA54.1967 Image not available Eric Thake Woodblock for 'Wrought a tomb and slept' 1942 58.1971 Image not available Eric Thake New Guinea profile - Argoos 1945 264.1976 Image not available Eric Thake Oceania 1945 277.1976 Dorothy Thornhill Figure on a chaise longue 1941 275.1986 Dorothy Thornhill Reclining torso 1940, 1949? 8191 Dorothy Thornhill Solandra 1945 7659 Dorothy Thornhill Landscape 1941 433.2001 Image not available G. K. Townshend The sand dune 1944 7412 1 2 3 4 5 6 7