Title
Cigarette still life
1935
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1935
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour
- Dimensions
- 24.0 x 16.5; 43.0 x 34.6 x 1.5 cm Frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "F.C. HINDER -3 (illeg.)".
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 148.1980
- Copyright
- © Estate of Frank Hinder
- Artist information
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Frank Hinder
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About
Frank Hinder studied in Sydney before moving to the USA for nine years to further his training, most significantly with Emil Bisttram at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts and later at his summer school at Taos, New Mexico. When Hinder returned to Sydney in 1935, he had absorbed a broad knowledge of European and American abstraction, becoming a key Australian mid century abstractionist.
Hinder was one of the founding members of the Contemporary Art Society in Sydney in 1939 and like his peers Margel Hinder, Ralph Balson and Grace Crowley, had a strong interest in cubist and constructivist principles, theories of dynamic symmetry, and philosophies of theosophy and anthroposophy. The Gallery has a substantial collection of Hinder's prints, drawings and watercolours.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Spirit and place: art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 21 Nov 1996–31 Mar 1997
Warning: Smoking has been linked to some of the most powerful images of the twentieth century – an MPRG exhibition., Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 04 Apr 2006–28 May 2006
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Nicolas Draffin, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Prints and Drawings - Australia, European and American', pg. 47-66, Sydney, 1981, 64 (illus.). cat.no. 36
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Rodney James., WARNING: Smoking has been linked to some of the most powerful images of the twentieth century, 'Come to where the flavour is, smoking, cigarettes + modernity', Mornington, 2006. List of works.
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Terence Maloon, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'The pedagogy of modern art: the quest for modernity by Australian artists abroad', pg. 239-251, Sydney, 2013, 245 (colour illus.), 313, 322.
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Ross Mellick and Nick Waterlow, Spirit and place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Sydney, Nov 1996, 147.
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