Historical information
Information from artist.
" Oil painting titled/ My Father's War! by Sharon Hackett/Phd/ My father, John Peter Hackett served in World/ War Two. This painting by myself is an expressionist realist oil painting, about / a young man serving in/ New Guinea".
John Peter HACKET V146209
Enlisted 27.01.1942 aged 18 years 6 months. No discharge date.
States on Attestation form 609 days 2nd AIF, 485 days overseas.
Physical description
Painting - oil painting in colour, with red, yellow, blue and black.
Style - expressionist realist.
Artist's signature bottom left.
Unframed canvas on timber.
