Collection
Eileen McGrath
(Australia 1907–13 Jun 2004)
- Title
- Head of Norman McGrath, aged three
- Place of origin
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Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1934
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze, marble
- Dimensions
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20.7 x 14.5 x 18.0cm head; 29.7 x 14.5 x 18.0cm overall:
a - head; 20.7 x 14.5 x 18cm
b - base; 9 x 11.3 x 11.1cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Donal and Jenny O'Donovan 1993
- Accession number
- 231.1993.a-b
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
The subject of this bronze bust is Norman McGrath, the artist's nephew and son of the architect and artist, Raymond McGrath (1903-77).
- Bibliography (3)
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Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia 2003, Canberra, 2003, 83. cat.no. 53
Deborah Edwards, 'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, 'Australia, the new Greece: the body as nation', pg. 30-51, Domain, 1999, 40 (colour illus.), 41, 108.
Ken Scarlett, Australian Sculptors, Melbourne, 1980, 395 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Nov 1999–16 Jan 2000
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
