Dorrit Black
(Australia 23 Dec 1891–13 Sep 1951)
- Title
- Watersprites
- Year
- (circa 1931)
- Media category
- Materials used
- linocut, printed in colour from three blocks on thin ivory laid tissue
- Edition
- 7/50
- Dimensions
-
18.6 x 28.0cm blockmark (irreg.); 23.4 x 32.7cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner beneath blockmark, pencil "... Dorrit Black". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Accession number
- 220.1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Black's linocuts reveal a great diversity of approaches and reflect her interest in experimenting with technique. This evocation of mythical water creatures contrasts with her other works shown here, in drawing upon the imagination for its subject and in reducing the forms to near-abstract, rhythmic patterns.
- Bibliography (4)
-
'Colour, rhythm and design: Wood and lino cuts from a time of great creative vitality' by Helen Campbell, pg. 13-15., Look Feb 2010, Feb 2010, 14 (colour illus.).
Helen Campbell (Australia) (Author), Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Sydney, 2010, 18 (colour illus.).
Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, Sydney, 1996, 147 (colour illus.), 148. Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia
Stephen Coppel (Australia) (Author), Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, England, 1995, 155 (illus.). cat.no. DB 13; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Mar 2010–11 Jul 2010.
