James Cant
(United Kingdom, Australia 28 Nov 1911–26 Jun 1982)
- Title
- (Male portrait)
- Year
- circa 1950s
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour monotype, printed on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
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28.2 x 19.5cm image; 32.6 x 21.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., black ink "J. CANT". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Benefactors Fund 2003
- Accession number
- 258.2003
- Copyright
- © James Cant. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
James Cant studied at the East Sydney Technical College, Julian Ashton School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (London). From 1949-55 he lived and worked in England and was a member of the London Group - his work at this time had surrealist qualities. Increasingly he turned towards social realism and was a founding member of SORA in Sydney. In 1949 he settled in Adelaide and taught at the South Australian School of Art. Cant made his first monotypes in the late 1940s and intermittently in subsequent years.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003
- Bibliography (1)
-
Josef Lebovic (Australia) (Compilator), Australian prints: Collectors' List no. 104, Paddington, 2003. cat.no. 17; reproduced in colour on Josef Lebovic Gallery website in electronic version of this catalogue
- Exhibition history (1)
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Australian prints: Collectors' List no. 104, Josef Lebovic Gallery, 31 May 2003–27 Jul 2003.
