Railway guard, Dimboola
1943
- Medium
- enamel paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 77.0 × 64.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Dimboola, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in charcoal on backing board: Nolan RAILWAY GUARD / DIMMBOOLA / 1943 / No11
- Accession Number
- A23-1983
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Sir Sidney and Lady Nolan, 1983
© The Estate of Sidney Nolan / Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Conscripted into the Army supply corps, Sidney Nolan was stationed in the Wimmera from 1942 to 1944. He spent many hours on guard duty, drawing and meditating on the landscape, the small country towns dominated by towering wheat silos, their railway lifelines to the sea, the farm houses and the immense fertile wheat paddocks. Their apparent naivety and spontaneity is undermined by Nolan’s sophisticated sense of design and colour. Railway guard, Dimboola 1943 is part of this series of paintings and drawings which are amongst the best and most intensely felt of all of Nolan’s art, and mark his first sustained engagement with the Australian landscape.
- Subjects (general)
- Cityscapes Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- Dimboola (inhabited place) portrait heads railroad stations railroads (infrastructure) railway platforms security guards Victoria (state)
- Movements
- Angry Penguins
- Frame
- Reproduction, 2002, based on film footage from 1944