Lloyd Rees
(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)
- Title
- Ball's Head, Sydney Harbour
- Place of origin
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Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1931
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil
- Dimensions
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5 7/8 x 9 3/8
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., "Lloyd Rees 1931"
- Credit
- Purchased 1931
- Accession number
- 175
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees. Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney.
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
Lloyd Rees valued drawing highly and it was an integral part of his oeuvre. Indeed, through the 1930s it was almost his exclusive focus. In 1931 he moved to McMahons Point, on the north shore of the Harbour, where he made many drawings of views towards Circular Quay, Balmain, Goat Island and Ball’s Head.
'The full measure of my highly detailed drawings of Sydney Harbour were done at McMahon’s Point. It was drawing purely for the sake of drawing, for by now, I was well out of the swim of the art world ….Drawing was simply an obsession and I was completely absorbed in the discovery of form and composition. The drawings were by no means naturalistic in the sense of simply selecting a subject and drawing it, for there were things brought in and things left out. They were highly worked and I had an intense interest in the manipulation of them. I drew in the morning and then took the work home and looked at it in the afternoon and if I saw anything superfluous, I rubbed it out.' Lloyd Rees 1985
- Bibliography (10)
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Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, Domain, 2001, 8.
The Brett Whiteley Studio (Australia, estab. 1994) (Editor), Big blue: the painted harbour (list of works), Sydney, 1997.
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, Sydney, 1995, 11, 16, 43 (illus.). cat.no. 41
Kay Vernon (Author), Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 94
Jane de Teliga (Australia) (Author), Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 8.
Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Lloyd Rees, Melbourne, 1972, 31 (illus.), 41. cat.no. D112
'The artistic development of Lloyd Rees' by Roland Wakelin, pg. 490-492., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Oct 1969, Oct 1969, 496 (illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Sydney, 1969, 33. cat.no. 123
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), (Lloyd Rees), Sydney, 1942.
Art in Australia [vol. 3, no. 42] Feb 1932, Feb 1932.
- Exhibition history (18)
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Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1931), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], 05 Sep 1931–02 Oct 1931.
Lloyd Rees (1942), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Aug 1942–30 Aug 1942.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Oct 1969–02 Nov 1969.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Queensland Art Gallery, Nov 1969–Dec 1969.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 01 Feb 1970–28 Feb 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 17 Mar 1970–13 Apr 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of South Australia, 01 May 1970–31 May 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of Western Australia, 18 Jun 1970–21 Jul 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 01 Aug 1970–31 Aug 1970.
Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980.
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 Mar 1995–14 May 1995.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 09 Jun 1995–16 Jul 1995.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 01 Sep 1995–15 Oct 1995.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queensland Art Gallery, 04 Nov 1995–01 Jan 1996.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 24 Jan 1996–11 Mar 1996.
Big Blue - the painted harbour (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 Jun 1997–29 Mar 1998.
Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001.
