Title
Building the Harbour Bridge VI: Nearly complete
1931
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1931
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, foul biting, printed in brown ink with plate tone on cream wove paper
- Edition
- Unknown
- Dimensions
- 37.7 x 14.7 cm platemark; 45.5 x 22.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. beneath platemark, pencil "JCA Traill 1931".
- Credit
- Purchased 1975
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 203.1975
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jessie Traill/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jessie Traill
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Metropolis, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 18 Dec 1999–02 Apr 2000
Bridging Sydney, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 16 Dec 2006–29 Apr 2007
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Moderns', pg. 103-104, Sydney, 2000, 114 (colour illus.), 302.
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Peter Emmett, Metropolis, Glebe, 1999. Exhibition guide, brochure format.
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Denise Mimmocchi, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'Icon of modernity: the Sydney Harbour Bridge', pg. 154-163, Sydney, 2013, 161 (colour illus.), 316, 324.
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 49 (colour illus.). cat.no. 70
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John Slater, Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945, 'Continuity and change', pg. 35-70, Melbourne, 2004, 59-60, 63, 74. Overall discussion of Traill's 'Bridge' etchings.
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Susannah Smith, Look, 'Women's work: their diverse and significant contribution to the modernist art scene', pg. 13-15, Sydney, Aug 2013, 14.
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 39
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