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Wounded at Cassino by Peter McIntyre

Wounded at Cassino by Peter McIntyre, March 1944.

Bombing of Cassino painting

Bombing of Cassino Monastery and town by Peter McIntyre, May 1944.

Sinking of the Bouvet

Sinking of the French battleship Bouvet in the Dardanelles Straits, March 1915

Maheno sailing from Wellington painting

Walter Armiger Bowring’s atmospheric depiction of the Maheno sailing from Wellington in 1915

The Battle of Chunuk Bair, 8 August 1915, by Ion Brown

The Battle of Chunuk Bair, 8 August 1915, by Ion G. Brown, 1990

The attack of the Otago Mounted Rifles at Messines, 2010

The attack of the Otago Mounted Rifles at Messines, 7 June 1917, painted by Captain Matt Gauldie, official New Zealand Army Artist, in 2010.Gauldie’s dramatic painting shows a charge by a squadron of the Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment during the Battle of Messines in June 1917. These horsemen advanced nearly a kilometre ahead of the infantry on Messines Ridge, capturing several German prisoners and two field guns.

Painting of James Crichton VC

Damaged war art

Examples of badly-damaged paper sketches in New Zealand's National Collection of War Art

Establishing a collection - First World War art

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 Wellington were never completed, leaving the collection in limbo for the next thirty years

International war art donated to NZ

International war art donated to New Zealand following the First World War

Artists in Uniform exhibition, 1943

Video about the 'Artists in Uniform' art exhibition held in New Zealand during the Second World War

Sunken road near Solesmes by George Edmund Butler

Sunken road near Solesmes by George Edmund Butler, October 1918

Menin Road from Hooge Crater by George Edmund Butler

Menin Road from Hooge Crater by George Edmund Butler, circa 1918

Butte de Polygon by George Edmund Butler

Butte de Polygon by George Edmund Butler, 1920.

George Butler

George Edmund Butler became New Zealand’s second official war artist in August 1918 – as it turned out, just three months before the end of the war. There are almost 100 of his works in New Zealand's National Collection of War Art, making him this country's most prolific First World War artist

George Edmund Butler

Artist George Edumnd Butler alongside one of his paintings, circa 1932

Dugouts Vlamentinghe, Belgium by Cecil Trevithick

Dugouts Vlamentinghe, Belgium by Cecil Trevithick, 17 February 1918

New Zealanders graves in Codford churchyard by Frederick Cumberworth

New Zealanders graves in Codford churchyard by Frederick Herbert Cumberworth, circa 1918

NZ Military HQ Bloomsbury Square, London by G.E. Woolley

NZ Military HQ Bloomsbury Square, London by G. E. Woolley, 1919.

With the Anzac Wireless Squadron in Persia by F. L. McFarlane

With the Anzac Wireless Squadron in Persia by H. M. McFarlane, circa 1918.