page_title: Australian official war artists
section_title: First World War
hierarchical_section_title: Australian official war artists / Selected artists / First World War
context_page_description: Australian official war artists are those who have been expressly employed by either the Australian War Memorial or the Army Military History Section. These artist soldiers depicted some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how war shapes lives.
  War artists have explored a visual and sensory dimension of war which is often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare. Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield; but there are many other types of war artist.
  A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating, The works produced by war artists illustrate and record many aspects of war, and the individual's experience of war, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural. The rôle of the artist and his work embraces the causes, course and consequences of conflict and it has an essentially educational purpose. For example, C.E.W.
context_section_description: George Bell, 1878–1966.
  George Courtney Benson, 1886–1960.
  Frederick C. Britton, 1889–1931
  Charles Bryant, 1883–1937.
  George Coates
  Frank R. Crozier, 1883–1948.
  Will Dyson, 1880–1938.
  A. Henry Fullwood, 1863–1930.
  Charles Web Gilbert, 1867–1925.
  John C. Goodchild 1898–1980
  George Washington Lambert, 1873–1930.
  
   
  Fred Leist,  1878–1945.
  Daryl Lindsay
  John Longstaff, 1862–1941.
  Will Longstaff, 1879–1953.
  Louis Frederick McCubbin, 1890–1952.
  W. B. McInnes
  H. Septimus Power, 1877–1951.
  James Quinn, 1869–1951.
  James F. Scott 1877–1932.
  Arthur Streeton, 1867–1943.
  Charles Wheeler
caption: Arthur Streeton: Amiens, the key of the west, oil-on-canvas, completed in 1919.
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