Lyndell Brown and Charles Green: painting Sarbi

Key facts

Artists

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green [source]

Date made

2010 [source]

Medium

Oil on linen [source]

Accession

ART94166 [source]

Documented object

The Memorial catalogues EDD Sarbi in Afghanistan under accession ART94166 as a 2010 oil-on-linen painting made in Melbourne. It identifies Brown and Green jointly as makers. Preserve both names and the collaboration rather than assigning the object to whichever artist appears first in a search result or later caption.

From photograph to painting

The catalogue explains that the artists made the painting in response to Sarbi’s return and used a photograph taken during their 2007 official-war-artist tour. This separates the source photograph, its original encounter and the later painted work. Those dates should not be collapsed into a claim that the painting was made on deployment.

Working dogs within war art

The institutional account describes the artists’ interest in dogs and their handlers and notes wider public attention to Sarbi’s story. This situates the painting within a cultural response, not merely an illustrative record. For an individual service biography, use the supporting military and institutional evidence rather than deriving the whole account from the image.

Catalogue and reproduce accurately

Keep title, accession, makers, medium and date with any research note. Distinguish permission to view the online catalogue from permission to reproduce its image, and preserve photographic credits where an image of the painting is used. This reference profile uses institutional context and makes no claim about current studio availability or every aspect of the artists’ careers. No artwork image has been copied here.

Common questions

Sources & further reading

References for this guide. Rules and services can change; check the responsible organisation for current details.

• Australian War Memorial: EDD Sarbi in Afghanistan (opens in a new tab)

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