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Elaine RUSSELL | Inspecting our houses
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RUSSELL, Elaine
Australia 1941
Inspecting our houses 2004
Painting
Painted Sketch
synthetic polymer paint on paper
78.0 (h) x 97.0 (w) cm
Purchased 2004
NGA 2004.316
© Elaine Russell
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The manager’s wife was a nursing sister and once a week she would inspect the houses on the mission to make sure that our homes were clean and tidy, which they were. She wanted to know how mum’s floors were so white seeing that we had no electricity to use an electric floor scrubber. That’s when mum showed her a piece of sandstone, by which she was very surprised!

Elaine Russell, 2004