Lloyd Rees

(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)

Title: Sydney Harbour
Place of origin: Northwood → Sydney → New South Wales → Australia
Year: 1936
Media category: Painting
Materials used: oil on canvas on cardboard
Dimensions: 22.1 x 56.7cm board; 30.0 x 58.2 x 4.5cm frame
Signature & date: Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "L.REES/ 36".
Credit: Transferred from the New South Wales State Government mid 1970s
Accession number: 241.1997
Location: 20th & 21st c Australian art
Further information: 'City skyline' and 'Sydney Harbour' were made at the end of a period that Rees had devoted almost exclusively to drawing. 'City skyline' was painted from the veranda of Rees' home in Northwood, on Sydney's North Shore, where the family had moved the previous year. 'Sydney Harbour' could almost be read as a panoramic continuation of 'City skyline' and was most likely painted at nearby Northwood Bay.
Bibliography (1): Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees: paintings, drawings and prints 2013, ‘Introduction’, pp 11-26, Sydney, 2013, 13, 29 (colour illus.), 158. cat.no. 5
Exhibition history (1): Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000

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