Miguel Mackinlay in the Great War, Dorothy Erickson

Vol 39 no 1, Feb 2017
Article from Vol 39 no 1, Feb 2017

Miguel Mackinlay in the Great War, Dorothy Erickson

Abstract:

It is timely to showcase the lively drawings of an Australian on the Western Front in the Great War 100 years ago. Although the young man fought in those terrible trenches, most of his images have a quiet dignity. Only in the heat of a battle in which he was wounded, do you feel the horror of it all; his frantic charcoal marks leave an indelible impression of conflict. Miguel Mackinlay went on to become the ‘talk of the town’ being ‘hung on the line’ at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in the competitive art world of early 1930s London. He never returned to Australia.

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