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Artists in Uniform or not just another visit to an art gallery on a wet Sunday afternoon
Behind the scenes
Following on from the article appearing in todays Press on Russell Clark's Japanese Planes, Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, 1945 it's interesting to see some film footage of Clark, and others, discussing art in 1944 which you can view here.
Russell Clark, Plane over island, Santa Isabel, 1943, watercolour. Archives New Zealand National War Art Collection.
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Russell Clark Japanese Planes, Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, 1945
Russell Clark spent nine months as an official war artist in the Pacific in 1944. He served mostly in the Solomon Islands, where he recorded the action against Japanese forces. Rekata Bay had been an occupied Japanese Imperial Navy seaplane base from 1942 until 1943, when a repeated bombing campaign by US forces ultimately forced their abandonment of the base. Pictured here are the wrecked aircraft left behind.
(Te Wheke, 2020)