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An image of Naval funeral by Dorrit Black

Dorrit Black

(Australia 23 Dec 1891–13 Sep 1951)

Title
Naval funeral
Year
(circa 1949)
Media category
Print
Materials used
linocut, printed in colour from four blocks on thin ivory tissue
Dimensions

16.8 x 24.2cm blockmark (irreg.); 23.4 x 26.5cm sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date
Signed within block to print u.r. corner, incised "DB [monogram]". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1976
Accession number
218.1976
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (5)

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955, Canberra, 2007, 242 (colour illus.). Collection of National Gallery of Australia

Catherine Speck (Australia) (Author), Painting ghosts: Australian women artists in wartime, Melbourne, 2004, 196, 197 (colour illus.). illus.no. 119; Note: this is not the impression in the collection of the AGNSW but another from the NGA, Canberra.

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Daphne Wallace (Australia, b.1964) (Author), Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Victoria Lynn (Australia) (Author), Sandra Byron (Australia) (Author), Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 1995.

Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Domain, 1982. no catalogue numbers; not paginated

Stephen Coppel (Australia) (Author), Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, England, 1995, 164 (illus.). cat.no. DB 45

Exhibition history (1)

Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982.