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Title

(Untitled - trams in street)

(circa 1929)

Artist

David Barker

Australia

1888 – 06 May 1946

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  • Details

    Date
    (circa 1929)
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    drypoint, printed in black ink on ivory wove paper
    Edition
    19/30
    Dimensions
    17.6 x 22.7 cm platemark; 25.3 x 30.4 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Signed l.r., pencil "David Barker". Not dated.

    Credit
    Gift of Jenny Pollack 2007
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    283.2007
    Artist information
    David Barker

    Works in the collection

    11

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  • About

    David Barker was a founding committee member and exhibitor with the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society from 1921, and a prolific etcher in the 1920s and 30s. Barker exhibited seventeen works in the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society's first exhibition, a number of which had been shown the previous year at Gayfield Shaw’s Art Gallery.

    The majority of the etchings by Barker included in the exhibition were of Middle Eastern subjects, where he had served in the AIF during WWI, and made numerous paintings and drawings. Later in the decade he made more etchings of local subjects, including several Sydney cityscapes.

Other works by David Barker

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