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An image of The swing by Thea Proctor

Thea Proctor

(Australia 02 Oct 1879–29 Jul 1966)

Title
The swing
Year
(circa 1925)
Media category
Print
Materials used
woodcut, printed in black ink, hand-coloured on cream rice paper
Edition
no 11
Dimensions

25.0 x 24.8cm

Signature & date
Signed l.r. beneath image, pencil "Thea Proctor". Not dated. Signed with monogram within block to print l.r. corner, "TP".
Credit
Purchased 1974
Accession number
39.1974
Copyright
© AGNSW
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (11)

Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney (Australia), Lawson-Menzies (Australia), Deutscher-Menzies & Lawson-Menzies, Sydney: Major fine art auction - 25 March 2009, Sydney, 2009, 20 (colour illus.). lot no. 4; edition number 43; titled, signed and numbered below image; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955, Canberra, 2007, 131, 166 (colour illus.). Collection of National Gallery of Australia

Andrew Sayers (Australia, b.1957) (Author), Sarah Engledow (Australia) (Author), Barry Humphries (Australia, b.1934) (Author), The world of Thea Proctor, Canberra, 2005, 11.

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 17.

Bridget Elliott (Canada, b.1957) (Editor), Janice Helland (Canada) (Editor), Women artists and the decorative arts 1880-1935: the gender of ornament, Aldershot, 2002, 79, 80.

Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, Sydney, 1996, 154, 155. NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression

Josef Lebovic (Australia) (Author), Masterpieces of Australian printmaking, Paddington, 1987, 102, 103. NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression

Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Domain, 1982. no catalogue numbers; not paginated

Janda Gooding (Australia) (Author), Thea Proctor, Perth, 1982, 2, 9, 12 (colour illus.). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression

Jan Minchin (Author), Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Chris Deutscher (Australia) (Author), The prints: Thea Proctor, Sydney, 1980, 18 (illus.), 54, 55 (colour illus.). cat.no. 16; Illustration on page 18 is sketch for this print; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression

Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Author), Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 12, 38 (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (1)

Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982.