Drought Year Group

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singebricks
singebricks
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High School - 10th Grade

Can you direct me to any artworks by Australian artists that correspond with the environment Judith Wright creates in her poem 'Drought Year'?

I stress that the artwork must be by an Australian

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Posted by singebricks on Tuesday March 13, 2007 at 2:00 AM and tagged with artist, drought year.

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  1. blazedale

    eNotes Editor

    Sidney Nolan is one of Australia's best known painters. In 1953, the same year this poem was published, he was commissioned by the Australian government to draw pictures of the devastating drought. The second link below is for a fairly recent show of that work.

    Sources:
    http://arts.enotes.com/oxford-art-encyclopedia/nolan-sir-...
    http://www.amazon.com/Sidney-Nolan-Drought-Geoffrey-Smith...
    http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/desertanddrought/

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    Posted by blazedale on Tuesday March 13, 2007 at 9:36 AM