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You
could only do one skim of paint. You couldnt cope with a heavily
painted canvas travelling around in jeeps. The conditions were tough
and your paintings almost went mildewed overnight up in that climate.
From
an interview with Nora Heysen,
25 August 1994
Oral History Collection
 
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Sister
Minnie Goldstein Working in the Blood Bank, Alexishafen
1944
oil
on canvas; 45.6 x 40.6 cm
signed lower left
Collection: Australian War Memorial
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I
was commissioned to depict the womens war effort. There was that restriction
on what I did. So I was lent around to all the services, the air force,
the navy and the army, to depict the women working at everything they
did during the war.
From
an interview with Nora Heysen,
25 August 1994
Oral History Collection
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