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An image of Fairy woods by John Kauffmann

John Kauffmann

(Australia 1864–1942)

Title
Fairy woods
Year
circa 1920
Media category
Photograph
Materials used
carbon photograph
Dimensions

21.2 x 29.6cm image/sheet; 25.3 x 32.2cm card

Signature & date
Signed l.r. image, ink "J Kauffmann". Not dated.
Credit
Gift of John Bilney 1979
Accession number
29.1979
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (3)

Denise Mimmocchi (Australia) (Author), Australian Symbolism: the art of dreams, Sydney, 2012, 126, 128 (colour illus.), 144.

Natasha Bullock (Australia) (Curator), Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Domain, 2002, (illus.). no catalogue numbers

Gael Newton (Australia), Australian Pictorial Photography, Melbourne, 1979, 11 (illus.), 19. cat.no. 57

Exhibition history (5)

Australian Pictorial Photography, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 12 Jun 1979–08 Jul 1979.

Australian Pictorial Photography, The Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, 08 Aug 1979–31 Aug 1979.

Australian Pictorial Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, 01 Dec 1979–30 Jan 1980.

Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30 Sep 2002–17 Nov 2002.

Modernism/Japonism in photography 1920s-1940s: Ishida Kiichiro and the Sydney Camera Circle, Museum of Sydney, 20 Dec 2003–25 Apr 2004.