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Captain Adelaide
Title : Captain Adelaide Captain Adelaide
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Creator : Murray-Harvey, Nigel artist
Place Of Creation : Adelaide
Date of creation : 1983
Format : Artwork
Dimensions : 520 x 420mm
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Copyright : This item is reproduced courtesy of Nigel Murray-Harvey. It may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Nigel Murray-Harvey and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form.
Description :

Silk screen print of Don Dunstan by Nigel Murray-Harvey, 27/50. The subject is shown dressed in the style of Superman, with the piping shrike state emblem on his chest, his belt buckle with 'SA', and wearing a police headband which alludes to the Dunstan government's sacking of Police Commissioner Harold Salisbury in 1978 (from notes by the artist).


'Captain Adelaide,' a screen-print depicting former South Australian Premier, Don Dunstan, by Nigel Murray-Harvey. Dunstan is shown dressed in the style of Superman, with the piping shrike state emblem on his chest, his 'SA' belt buckle, and wearing a police headband alluding to Dunstan's controversial sacking of Police Commissioner Harold Salisbury in 1978.
Subjects
Related names :

Dunstan, Don, 1926-1999

Murray-Harvey, Nigel

Salisbury, Harold Hubert, 1915-

Period : 1946-1979
Further reading :
Dunstan, Don. Felicia, the political memoirs of Don Dunstan, South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981

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