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An image of recto: Trees, shed and houses verso: Hillside landscape by Lloyd Rees
Alternate image of recto: Trees, shed and houses verso: Hillside landscape by Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Rees

(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)

Title
recto: Trees, shed and houses verso: Hillside landscape
Year
late 1930s-early 1940s
Media category
Drawing
Materials used
pencil on paper
Dimensions

21.6 x 28.5 cm sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Gift of Alan & Jancis Rees, the artist's son and daughter-in-law 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Accession number
14.2012
Copyright
© A&J Rees. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
Location
Not on display
Further information

Rees is indisputably one of the most important Australian landscape artists of the twentieth century and the Art Gallery of New South Wales has the finest collection of his work, principally drawings from the artist's estate, the majority of which have come as gifts from Alan & Jancis Rees following the centenary retrospective exhibition: 'Lloyd Rees drawings: centenary retrospective' 1995.

Bibliography (2)

Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees: paintings, drawings and prints 2013, 'Paintings: and related drawings and prints’, pp 27-66, Sydney, 2013, 32 (illus.), 159. cat.no. 7

Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective 1995, 'The Forties’, pp 64-65, Sydney, 1995, 64 (illus.), 65. cat.no. 66

Exhibition history (1)

Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96):