• Title
  Where daddy fell, 1915 / painted by Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo
• Creator
  Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, 1870-1955
• Call number
  ML 1497
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1915
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1008776
• Physical Description
  1 painting - visible image 106 x 120 cm., in frame 123 x 140 cm - oil on canvas
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Anthony Dattilo Rubbo (1870 - 1955) was born in Naples and received classical art training in Italy. He arrived in Australia in 1897, and over the next couple of years established himself in Sydney as the major competitor of Julian Ashton. He taught at a number of Sydney private schools and was the most popular instructor at the school of the (Royal) Art Society of New South Wales. At the turn of the century his flat near the Bulletin offices was a meeting place for Sydney's Bohemian community. Grace Cossington Smith, Roland Wakelin and Roy de Maistre were all Rubbo's students, and the first modern paintings in Australia arose from Rubbo's openness to new ideas. In 1924 he helped to found Manly Art Gallery and Historical Collection (to which he donated over one hundred of his own works) and the Dante Alighieri Art and Literary Society.
  
  This scene by Anthony Dattilo Rubbo was painted the year of the Gallipoli campaign, and illustrates the impact of the First World War on the Australian home front and on individual families. The figures in the scene are unknown, but represent the everyday Australian family who were affected by the War.
  
  References:
  National Portrait Gallery, http://www.portrait.gov.au, accessed 4 May 2017
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  A domestic vignette of an Australian family mourning the death of a close family member who served and fell in the First World War. Image depicts an older bearded man pointing at a map location to a young boy holding a Union Jack, and female figure dressed in black with her face covered in her handkerchief.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years.
  Copyright holder:: Estate of Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Estate of Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo
• General note
  
  Frame: original, F. Holdsworth, Sydney (label verso)
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated, lower right corner: A. Dattilo Rubbo/ Sydney 1915
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Art, Australian.
  World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Australia.
  World War, 1914-1918--Psychological aspects.
  Families--Portraits.
  
• Topic
  families
  domestic life
  mourners
  war widows
  maps
  Union Jacks
  sons
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Quick March! The Children of World War I
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE11057847

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