• Title
  Series 1: Fabian artworks from the HMT Dunera, Australian internment camps and surrounds
• Call number
  PXD 1626/Box 1
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  between 1940-1942
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9676386
• Physical Description
  35 drawings - 64 x 52 cm, and smaller - pencil, ink, charcoal
  9 prints - 64 x 52 cm, and smaller - monotype etchings
  6 paintings - 64 x 52 cm, and smaller - watercolour
  
• Scope and Content
  PXD 1626/BOX 1
  Items 01-03: Dunera [sketch studies of sleeping figures], [1940]
  Pencil on notebook paper (both sides), 20 x 25 cm.
  
  Item 04: [Dunera - seated man], [1940]
  Ink on paper, 21 x 15 cm.
  
  Item 05: Hay [portrait of seated man], [1941]
  Two drawings on one sheet, charcoal on paper (both sides), 41 x 30 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 06: Hay kitchen, 21 January 1941
  Charcoal, on brown paper, 50 x 39 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 07: [Hay - men working on trolley], [1941]
  Charcoal, on paper, 41 x 51 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 08: Hay [view of fences and buildings; two people and shed], [1941]
  Two drawings on one sheet (double-sided), 41 x 52 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 09: Hay [four sketches], [1941]
  Four drawings on one sheet (double-sided), pencil on brown paper, 26 x 46 cm.
  
  Item 10: [Circus], [1941?]
  Monotype etching, 21 x 34 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Items 11-13: [Abstracts], 1941
  Ink, watercolour, on paper, all 25 x 20 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 14: Hay [pumpkin patch], 11 March 1941
  Pencil on paper, 34 x 45 cm. Sketches on verso 1941-0 3-11
  
  Item 15: Hay [men working on pipes], 26 March 1941
  Watercolour on paper, 38 x 53 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 16: [Men working in vegetable garden, Hay], 4 April 1941
  Watercolour on paper, 33 x 48 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 17: Hay, 14 April 1941
  Watercolour on paper, 33 x 46 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 18: [Camp scene, Hay], 13 May [1941?]
  Watercolour on paper, 33 x 48 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 19: [Vegetable garden], Orange, 23 May 1941
  Watercolour, monochrome, on paper, 25 x 34 cm. Signed by artist, with faint pencil sketch on verso, with 'Orange' written in lower right corner
  
  Item 20: Orange [view of grandstand], 23 July 1941
  Ink, on paper, 22 x 28 cm.
  
  Item 21: Tatura, [Victoria], 28 July 1941
  Pencil, watercolour, monochrome, on paper, 28 x 44 cm.
  
  Item 22: Tatura, [Victoria], 28 July 1941
  Pencil, watercolour, monochrome, on paper, 29 x 45 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 23: Tatura, [Victoria], 1 August 1941
  Pencil, watercolour, monochrome, on paper, 29 x 44 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 24: Tatura, [Victoria], 1 August 1941
  Pencil, watercolour, monochrome, on paper, 29 x 44 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 25: [Standing man], 14 August 1941
  Ink, watercolour, on brown paper, 52 x 37 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 26: [Man on chair], 19 August 1941
  Ink, watercolour, monochrome on paper, 46 x 30 cm. Signed by artist. Lower left corner torn off sheet.
  
  Item 27: Hay [Man on chair], 19 August 1941
  Ink, watercolour, monochrome on paper, 46 x 31 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 28: [Man on chair], 29 August 1941
  Monotype etching, 28 x 22 cm.
  
  Item 29: Championship 14th-20th, September 1941
  Watercolour on card, 64 x 52 cm. Title from item, signed by artist. Depicts two figures playing table tennis.
  
  Item 30: Orange [Grandstand], 5 September 1941
  Two drawings on one sheet (monotype etching, pencil on verso), 28 x 40 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 31: Grandstand, Orange, 5 September 1941
  Two drawings on one sheet (monotype etching, pencil on verso), 28 x 37 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 32: Liverpool - Anzac - Rifle Range, 24 October 1941
  Monotype etching, 26 x 39 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 33: [Man sleeping], [1942?]
  Pencil on paper, 20 x 26 cm.
  
  Item 34: [Man at desk] & Stonington [Man asleep] (on verso), [1942?]
  Two drawings on one sheet, 31 x 25 cm. Part title from item.
  
  Item 35: [Reclining figure], [1942?]
  Charcoal, pencil, on paper, 25 x 33 cm.
  
  Item 36: [Abstract drawing], [1942?]
  Charcoal on grey paper, 22 x 27 cm.
  
  Item 37: [Abstract figures], [1942?]
  Ink on paper, 33 x 42 cm.
  
  Item 38: [Abstract figures on beach with ship in background], [1942?]
  Ink on paper, 33 x 42 cm.
  
  Item 39: [Abstract drawing], [1942?]
  Ink, liquid paper, on paper, rough sketch on verso, 35 x 27 cm.
  
  Item 40: Stonington - convalescent home [Man reclining, two men at table], [1942?]
  Monotype etching, 48 x 56 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 41: Stonington, Victoria [Convalescent hospital? Man on chair], [1942?]
  Charcoal, pencil, paper, 51 x 41 cm. Title from artist, signed by artist.
  
  Item 42: [No title - abstract image], 1942
  Monotype etching, 37 x 48 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 43: Max Baer, 17 years, Torpedoed and drowned in transport, England Oct. 42, 1 March 1942
  Charcoal; with rough sketch on verso, 44 x 31 cm. Title from item. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 44: Dandenong, June 1942
  Ink on paper, 20 x 26 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
  
  Item 45: [8th Employment Company], October 1942
  Ink on paper, 20 x 25 cm.
  
  Item 46: [Fallen tree], 1942
  Monotype etching, 38 x 52 cm. Signed by artist.
  
  Item 47: Rest, Tocumwal, 1943
  Monotype etching, 38 x 49 cm. Title from item, signed by artist.
• System of arrangement
  Arranged chronologically.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: Estate of Erwin Fabian
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Titles from artworks where available. Other titles devised by cataloguer based on image.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most items signed and dated by artist.
• Date note
  
  Dates from artworks where available. Other dates based on time Fabian's time in internment camps and with the 8th Employment Company.
• Subject
  World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Australia--Pictorial works.
  World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--New South Wales--Hay.
  World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--New South Wales--Orange.
  Hay Internment and Prisoner of War Camps--Pictorial works.
  Dunera (Ship)
  Dunera: Stories of Internment.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Dunera: Stories of Internment
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20832871

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