Title
Kimberley landscape
1961
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Western Australia
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Australia
- Date
- 1961
- Media categories
- Watercolour , Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
- 26.7 x 41.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., ink ".../ Russell Drysdale 61."
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 132.1996
- Copyright
- © Estate of Russell Drysdale
- Artist information
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Russell Drysdale
Works in the collection
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About
'Kimberley landscape' was made for the book 'Journey among men' published in 1962 (of which Drysdale and 'Jock' Marshall were joint authors) to illustrate the text "A rough track led us north towards the distant Oscar Range". The book was the result of a zoological tour of north-western Australia in 1958 when Drysdale acted as unofficial artist. 'Kimberley landscape' is a major watercolour, comparable with Drysdale's late landscape paintings and reveals his considerable powers of pictorial invention and draughtsmanship.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Western Australia
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Russell Drysdale Drawings 1935-1980, Joseph Brown Gallery, Australia, 01 Mar 1981–31 Mar 1981
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Russell Drysdale: the drawings, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 17 Feb 2012–25 Mar 2012
Russell Drysdale: the drawings, Carrick Hill, Australia, 04 Apr 2012–17 Jun 2012
Russell Drysdale: the drawings, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 26 Jun 2012–05 Aug 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Art Gallery of Western Australia, The drawings of Russell Drysdale: 1980 Perth survey of drawing, Perth, 1980, 69 (illus.). plate no. 35
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Anna Gray, Hendrik Kolenberg and Tim Bonyhady, Russell Drysdale, Perth, 1999, 9 (illus.), 14, 21. cat.no 29
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Lou Klepac, Russell Drysdale: the drawings, 'Drysdale drawings: 'Journey among men' and retrospective', pg. 29-32, Sydney, 2012, 32, 128 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 70 (illus.). cat.no. 61
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Jock Marshall and Russell Drysdale, Journey among men, London, 1962, 113 (illus.).
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