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was appointed an official war artist.  The work, Canberra War Memorial from Mt Ainslie (29.5 x 37.8 cm, carbon pencil on paper), is held at the Australian War Memorial (ART29725, cas.awm.gov.au/item/ART29725, accessed October 2011).  This work is executed from a vantage point behind the Australian War Memorial, and its view includes the line of Anzac Parade (Warwick Heywood, Curator of Art, Australian War Memorial, personal communication, 18 October 2011).

Curtis depicted the Australian War Memorial in a drawing of 1945, War Memorial, Canberra, also held at the Australian War Memorial (ART29723, cas.awm.gov.au/item/ART29723, accessed October 2011).  However, this work does not depict any part of what became Anzac Parade (Warwick Heywood, Curator of Art, Australian War Memorial, personal communication, 18 October 2011).  In the same year, Curtis painted the Australian War Memorial.  It had by now been opened for four years, but Anzac Parade was only a grass track at the time.

   Figure 83.  Thanksgiving service in celebration of Victory in Europe held on the steps of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 9 May 1945, by Robert Emerson Curtis, 1945 (pencil, watercolour, heightened with white on paper)
   Source:  Australian War Memorial, Negative Number ART25669, cas.awm.gov.au/item/ART25669

Harold Abbott's oil painting of the Australian War Memorial on Victory in the Pacific (VP) day, August 1945, also features a large crowd, but does not show any of the future Anzac Parade (Australian War Memorial, ART22923, cas.awm.gov.au/item/ART22923, accessed October 2011).

In the early 1960s, the National Capital Development Commission commissioned Lawrence Daws to produce representations of Lake Burley Griffin that would assist in the design of its surrounding landscape.  Daws (born 1927), a trained engineer and architect, first came to prominence as a painter at a group exhibition in Melbourne in 1955.  From then on he has had numerous solo exhibitions both in the major Australian cities and overseas (McCulloch 1984, p 208).  For the NCDC he produced The Landscape of the Central Basin, Canberra, ACT, currently in the collection of the Canberra Museum and Gallery.  The painting is a map-like work, not specifically focussed on Anzac Parade (Deborah Clark, Curator of Visual Arts, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, personal communication, 18 October 2011).

In 1964, the NCDC commissioned Kenneth Jack to produced sketches of the national capital for its publication The Future Canberra.  However, none of Jack's sketches in this book is an image of Anzac Parade (Fiona Blackburn, Community Liaison Librarian, ACT Heritage Library, personal communication, 17 October 2011).

In 1965, the year that Anzac Parade was officially opened, the painter, teacher, illustrator, cartoonist and muralist, Harold Freedman (1915-1999) produced the series Canberra Lithographs.  These include 'Canberra from Capital Hill Looking North-East', which is essentially a panoramic view of Lake Burley Griffin with