Painter's Journal

Selections from fourteen volumes of diaries, with illustrations by Donald Friend, bear witness to his deep frustration with the boredom of Brisbane camp life – 'a stupid khaki hell' – where he was a gunner during the war years.

The book is generously illustrated with Friend's character drawings in line, pen and pencil.

Tucked inside this book is a small nugget – an inserted newspaper clipping from the Melbourne 'Age' in 1946 where a critic bemoans, 'Excellent art book, almost ruined by vapid prose scribblings'.

Publisher: Ure Smith. First Australian edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Sydney
Very good in good dustwrapper chipped along edges and missing a small piece from the crown of the spine.


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