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An image of Morning star by Peter Kingston

Peter Kingston

(Australia 08 May 1943– )

Title
Morning star
Year
2002
Media category
Print
Materials used
hand-coloured sugarlift aquatint, printed in black ink and gouache on white BFK Rives paper
Dimensions

68.0 x 50.0cm platemark (irreg.); 75.7 x 56.4cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Peter Kingston". Not dated.
Credit
Gift of the artist 2003
Accession number
37.2003
Copyright
© Peter Kingston
Location
Not on display
Further information

This print was commissioned and used by The Sydney Morning Herald for the early/country edition of that newspaper on New Year's Day, 2003.

It is a classic view of Sydney Harbour from Lavender Bay showing the Bridge, Opera House, Luna Park, the railway depot and a Hegarty's ferry at dawn.

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

Bibliography (3)

Look Feb 2009, Feb 2009, 41 (colour illus.). NOTE: Featured in the Members events March 09 section.

Gavin Wilson (Australia) (Author), Harbourlife, Sydney, 2007, 57, 26.

Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Contemporary Australian prints from the collection, Domain, 2004. cat.no. 21

Exhibition history (5)

Contemporary Australian prints from the collection (2004), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 03 Apr 2004–06 Jun 2004.

Peter Kingston: a survey, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 03 Dec 2004–16 Jan 2005.

Peter Kingston: a survey, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 25 Mar 2005–08 May 2005.

Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940s to recent times, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 30 Nov 2007–13 Jan 2008.

Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940s to recent times, Macquarie University Art Gallery, 23 Jan 2008–08 Mar 2008.