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Title

(Old gum tree, The Cedars, Hahndorf)

circa 1928

Artist

Nora Heysen

Australia

11 Jan 1911 – 30 Dec 2003

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  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Hahndorf → South Australia → Australia
    Date
    circa 1928
    Media category
    Drawing
    Materials used
    pencil on grey paper
    Dimensions
    35.1 x 40.7 cm sheet
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Gift of the artist 2003
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    369.2003
    Copyright
    © Lou Klepac

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    This is the gum tree later immortalized by Nora Heysen's father Hans Heysen in his work. Nora Heysen remembers that it was she who first alerted her father to it.

    © Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Hahndorf

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