IVOR HELE: THE GREAT WAR ILLUSTRATOR
Illustration Art
DECEMBER 4, 2005
The best war illustrator you've never heard of is Ivor Hele (1912-1993) who depicted searing images of combat and military life in World War II and the Korean War. As an official war artist for the Australian government, Hele spent a year at the frontlines in the North African campaign from 1941-42. Hele then traveled to the South Pacific island of New Guinea where he drew and painted the fierce combat between the Australians and the Japanese in dark and difficult jungle terrain.
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