Title
Landscape with Obelisk
circa 1938-circa 1940
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1938-circa 1940
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 10.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 121.1993
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
Works in the collection
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About
One of a number of early studies for surreal landscapes, this drawing is closely related to a painting. Although tiny, its landscape forms are monumental, akin to those in Gleeson's most recent paintings.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg.32.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1994–25 Sep 1994
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Renée Free, Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1994.
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 32 (colour illus.). cat.no. 1
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