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An image of Storm at Sunset by Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Rees

(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)

Title
Storm at Sunset, from the suite Caloola
Year
1980
Media category
Print
Materials used
lithograph
Edition
AP I/XVIII
Dimensions

50.5 x 65.6cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed and dated lower c., black fibre-tipped pen "Lloyd Rees/ 80".
Credit
Gift of Alan and Jancis Rees 1998
Accession number
123.1998.6
Copyright
© A&J Rees. Licensed by Viscopy, Australia.
Location
Study room
Further information

Rees experimented with etching as a young man, but did not turn seriously to printmaking until much later in his life. 'The Caloola Suite' was his first series of lithographs, the final published group of six selected from seventeen made at the time. The subjects were inspired by landscapes of special personal significance, including those around his holiday home 'Caloola' at Werri Beach on the south coast of New South Wales and in Hobart, from the top of Mount Wellington and looking towards the River Derwent from his son's house at Sandy Bay.

For Rees, prints were an extension of drawing. 'The Caloola Suite' underscores the energy and monumental scale of his later works, paintings as well as drawings. Although reluctant to make lithographs at first, he was astonished at how well they turned out:

"... it's a funny thing with human nature. If I had been agreeable to do them in the first case, you know - responded, I think that they might have been less interesting. The fact that I was in a state of rebellion had something to do with it ... I remember I was a bit resistant sitting back with a big board and saying 'Well, what is it' ... and without any inhibitions I went at it, you see ... I thought they'd be no good. They were simply grey impressions [on the aluminium plates] ... when we made the lithographs with Fred Genis, he came in and put them out on the floor; I was staggered."
- Lloyd Rees 1983

Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000

Bibliography (2)

Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, Domain, 2001, 8.

Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Lloyd Rees: Etchings and lithographs - a catalogue raisonné, Sydney, 1986, 58-65, 64 (illus.).

Exhibition history (4)

Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.

Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001.

Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 03 Dec 2005–09 Apr 2006.

Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006.