Waggon Post, Vaux
Will DYSON: artist
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Dyson relocated from Australia to London in late 1909 and became a highly successful cartoonist with the radical Daily Herald, attracting such admirers as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells.
In 1916 Dyson volunteered as an artist to produce a visual record of Australian soldiers deployed to fight on the Western Front in France. Dyson focussed on the men, capturing their endurance and exhaustion. He saw action in France and was wounded twice. His friend Charles Bean, the Australian official war correspondent, wrote that no other official British or Australian artist “saw a tenth part as much of the real Western Front as did Will Dyson”.
In 1916 Dyson volunteered as an artist to produce a visual record of Australian soldiers deployed to fight on the Western Front in France. Dyson focussed on the men, capturing their endurance and exhaustion. He saw action in France and was wounded twice. His friend Charles Bean, the Australian official war correspondent, wrote that no other official British or Australian artist “saw a tenth part as much of the real Western Front as did Will Dyson”.
Title
Waggon Post, Vaux
Artist/Maker and role
Will DYSON: artist
Date
c 1900-c 1919
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
78.5 x 52.4cm (sheet)
39.4 x 53.5cm (plate)
39.4 x 53.5cm (plate)
Credit line
Gift of Sir W. Ellison-Macartney, 1919
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
1919/00Q1