George Lambert: Gallipoli & Palestine Landscapes

December 13 - February 15, 2009

The Australian War Memorial has the largest collection of landscape paintings by George Lambert.  For the first time in thirty years, visitors will have the opportunity to view these exquisite works together in the travelling exhibition George Lambert: Gallipoli and Palestine landscapes. 

The exhibition will trace Lambert’s work through his first journey to Palestine and the Sinai in 1918 and include those paintings he completed during the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli in 1919. Utilising small panel paintings, drawings and watercolours the exhibition will take as its main theme Lambert’s representation of significant landscapes and how these connect to individual and national memories of war.

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George Lambert, Mouth of The Wady el Arish, 1918, watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper.