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Drysdale and Roberts
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In 1947 Australia was governed by the Australian Labor Party with Mr Ben Chiffley as Prime Minister. In general the late 1940s were a time of social and economic consolidation following the end of the second world war. The expressionist and social realist artists of the war years turned more to the landscape for inspiration.
The drought, which had so influenced Drysdale in this and other paintings, and which he was originally commissioned to cover for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1944, had finished, but a massive rabbit plague sweeping Australia was a major new concern. Two years later the Australian Government introduced the controversial myxomatosis virus in an attempt to end the rabbit crisis, the effect of which (on crops and erosion)
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