Title
Head and arms (Barbara Blackman)
1954
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1954
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- black conté on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 38.0 x 49.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., black conté "John Brack 54". Dated c.r., black conté "2-8-54".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Arthur Boyd Acquisition Fund 1996
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 413.1996
- Copyright
- © Helen Brack
- Artist information
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John Brack
Works in the collection
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About
John Brack is a major figurative artist of the post war period in Australia. This drawing is from the artist's early maturity, a powerful and sculptural study of the figure and one of seven drawings by Brack in the collection. The subject is Barbara Blackman, who modelled for a number of artists in Melbourne in the 1950s.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
John Brack portraits (2007), National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 24 Aug 2007–18 Nov 2007
John Brack Retrospective (2009-2010), Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 24 Apr 2009–09 Aug 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Edmund Capon, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'John Brack / Jeffrey Smart', pg. 116-127, Sydney, 2002, 116 (colour illus.), 143, 147.
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Kristy Grant, John Brack, 'Human nature: the art of John Brack', pg. 87-132, Melbourne, 2009, 26 (colour illus.), 107.
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Fiona Harari, The Weekend Australian magazine, 'Portraits of a Lady', pg. 20, Sydney, 26 May 1997, 20.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 99 (illus.). cat.no. 92
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Author Unknown, Joel's, Aug 1993, 20 (illus.).
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