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Memorial and the Royal Australian Air Force Memorial – in his Canberra Sketchbook.  In 1995 Jean Weiner's cartoon, 'Inauguration Day: Australian Vietnam Forces National Monument' appeared in Guy Freeland's Canberra Cosmos, and in 1998 it was given further exposure in Ken Inglis' Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape.

The memorials have also been documented twice by professional photographers for Commonwealth Government departments and agencies.  In 2002, Damian McDonald photographed all the memorials for the National Library of Australia.  His work is accessible on the Library's website and is offered for sale as a set of photographs to the general public.  In 2007, Steve Wray and Dragi Markovic shared the job of photographing the memorials for the then Department of the Environment and Water Resources (now the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment).  Their work is also accessible on the web and available for sale to the general public.

While the individual memorials have special significance to different groups of people – based upon personal or family connections with the events memorialised or in some cases upon ethnicity (this is explored further below) – the memorials are experienced as a group or collection by a large number of people, many being visitors to Canberra.  The memorials may therefore be viewed as a de facto sculpture park, albeit one based upon a common theme.  And it is perhaps in this way that for many people the memorials contribute to the aesthetic significance of Anzac Parade.

Anzac Parade as a whole

Visual Art
The axis of what is now Anzac Parade has featured in paintings from long before the road itself was officially opened in 1965.  The first work to include the line of the road is Louis McCubbin's work, The Inauguration of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ANZAC Day 1929 (Australian War Memorial, ART09852, cas.awm.gov.au/item/ART09852, accessed October 2011).

Figure 82.  The Inauguration of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ANZAC Day 1929, by Louis McCubbin (92.2 x 234.2 cm, oil on canvas)
Source:  Australian War Memorial, Negative Number ART09852, cas.awm.gov.au/item/ART09852

In 1938, Robert Emerson Curtis depicted the Australian War Memorial, viewed from the slopes of Mount Ainslie, looking towards the then Provisional Parliament House.  Curtis (1899-1996) was born in England and migrated to Australia with his parents.  Between the wars, he worked as an artist, illustrator and cartoonist.  He spent much of his service in World War 2 recording the activities of Australian and American troops.  In January 1945 he 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