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Museum: Australian National Maritime Museum (Sydney, Australia)

Technique: Wood

This painting by Gina Sinozich shows an English lesson being given to refugees on board the liner SS NEPTUNIA as it travels from Genoa, Italy to Melbourne, Australia in 1957. The artist, her husband Eugen and their two children Gina and Eugen, attended weekly English classes on board the steamship to prepare themselves for their new life in Australia. Here they are shown sitting in the class and are identifiable by the initials E and G.

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