war art

First World War art

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  During the First World War official and unofficial New Zealand war artists produced a wide range of works depicting this country's war effort. These works later became part of New Zealand's National Collection of War Art.

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• Page 2 – Unofficial war art

  New Zealand soldiers used art to interpret the experience of the war for an audience of noncombatant civilians. Civilian artists in turn produced works that responded to and

• Page 3 – Official war art

  The NZEF employed its first official war artist, Lance Corporal Nugent Welch, in April 1918. Welch documented the activities of the New Zealand Division in France and Belgium,

• Page 4 – Establishing a collection

  Following the end of the war, attention turned to where New Zealand's official First World War art collection would be stored. Plans for a National War Memorial Museum in

• Page 5 – National Collection of War Art

  There are around 1500 paintings, drawings, sketches, cartoons and prints in New Zealand’s National Collection of War Art. This collection has its origins in the final year of

• Page 6 – Kiwi war artists

  Selected biographies of New Zealand First World War artists

• Page 7 – Further information

  Website links and books relating to New Zealand First World War art collection