Collection
Desmond Digby
(New Zealand, Australia 1933– )
- Title
- The white platoon
- Other titles:
- Bowling ladies
- Year
- circa 1965
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on hardboard
- Dimensions
-
38.0 x 71.0cm board; 40.0 x 73.0 x 3.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner, black ink "Desmond Digby". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Patrick White 1991
- Accession number
- 100.1991.37
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (3)
-
Craig Brush, Look Sep 2004, 'Celebrating Patrick White: when the end is not the end: a moving tribute', pg. 18-20, Newtown, Sep 2004, 19 (colour illus.). Photograph of Patrick White's house before removal of works donated to the AGNSW with 'The white platoon' hanging on wall.
Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, Carlton, 2002, 132.
William Yang, Patrick White: the late years, Sydney, 1995, 14 (illus.). Photograph of Patrick White's study after White's death with 'The white platoon' hanging on wall.
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Desmond Digby: Exhibition of paintings (1965), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 04 Aug 1965–16 Aug 1965
