Robert Emerson Curtis drawings
Collection
This collection consists of twelve drawings by Robert Emerson Curtis. They are as follows: Normal State School, Brisbane pencil, dated 16/5/20. "Two-Up" on the Parade Ground, Transit camp, Townsville, Qld., ink 1943. Rockhampton's Railway Yards, ink 1944. Women Welders Wartime - Brisbane, litho pencil, 1944. Cairns: Q. "Awaiting Transport", ink, 1945. Caterpillar Tractor N. Qld., litho pencil, 1945. "Forester's Yard" - North Qld, ink and red conte, 1945. Kennedy, N. Qld., Kauri Veneers, red conte 1945. Tin Dredging. Mount Garnett, N. Qld., litho pencil, 1946. At the "Oak Park" Amateur Races in 1947, North Qld., 1947. "Banana Lands" out of Uki, NSW, pencil, 1950. Trouble with a Silky Oak in the Bull Ring, pencil.
During the Second World War, Robert worked as a camouflage officer in Australia and New Guinea, alongside fellow Australian artists William Dobell and Douglas Annand, and from 1943 to 1945 was Official Commonwealth War Artist, recording industrial war-time production. After the war, Robert continued to work as an artist, concentrating on industrial themes, but also painting portraits and landscapes. He died in 1996.
In copyright.