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Oil painting of Nicola Corbo in internment camp by Vincenzo Poggi, 1942
Oil painting of internee Nicola Corbo by fellow Italian Canadian internee Vincenzo Poggi. Corbo stands indoors leaning against a window frame. He is wearing the prisoner uniform and a red bulls-eye is barely visible on his back. There is a red triangular patch on his arm and he is wearing a hat. In his breast pocket he carries a pen and a red coloured pencil. In the left background a garden is visible. There is a river in the far background.
Accession#
LDICEA2011.0017.0009
Maker
Date
1942
Classification
Inscriptions
Verso: (Handwritten, blue ink, on paper and taped to the back) Corbo / no. 4
Acquisition Method
Loan Digital Reproduction
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