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Details
- Date
- 1891
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour, gum
- Dimensions
- 59.5 x 76.1 cm sheet; 56.5 x 74.1 cm sight edge; 86.5 x 104.1 x 5.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, brown watercolour "FRANK P MAHONY/ 1891".
- Credit
- Purchased 1920
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 4393
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frank Mahony
Works in the collection
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About
When it was first exhibited in the Gallery's 1891 Watercolour Competition a 'Sydney Herald' reviewer described this watercolour as:
'A very noticable picture, perhaps a little too highly coloured to meet with the trustees' approval ... and as ... one of the few subjects illustrative of the industrial side of Australian life. The scene is a characteristic one. The team has halted, and the teamsters are preparing a meal. The picture wants tone, but the idea is excellent, and the execution vigorous and true. The bullocks are life-like and their attitudes faithful and natural, the grouping is characteristic, and the detail, like that in the abraded tree-trunk in the foreground, has all been carefully put in. The picture illustrates a side of the timber trade, which is one of those features of pioneer enterprise which our artists might more generally study with a view to their preservation.'
excerpt from Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, '19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels in the Gallery's collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Watercolour drawings competition - scenery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Dec 1892–Jan 1893
Loan exhibition: to inaugurate the first completed portion of the gallery, on Her Majesty's birthday, 24th May 1897, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, May 1897–Jun 1897
Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836-1946, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 May 1946–Jun 1946
Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection (1991), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1991–07 Jul 1991
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Apr 1992–28 Jun 1992
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 Mar 2021–11 Jul 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 14 publications
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Julian Ashton, Now came still evening on, Sydney, 1941, 98.
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Leigh Astbury, Sunlight and shadow: Australian impressionist painters 1880-1900, Rushcutters Bay, 1989, 182 (colour illus.). plate no. 134
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Jean Campbell, Australian watercolour painters: 1780 to the present day, 'The 1880s and 1890s: Victoria and New South Wales', pg. 62-81, Sydney, 1989, 69 (colour illus.).
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Jean Campbell, Australian watercolour painters 1780-1980, Adelaide, 1983, 69 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 23 (colour illus.), 114. cat.no. 8
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Hendrik Kolenberg., Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection, 'Introduction', Sydney, 1991. not paginated, cat.no. 42
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Hendrik Kolenberg, 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, 'Introduction', pg. 6-16, Sydney, 2005, 12, 98, 99 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, '19th century Australian watercolours from the collection', Heidelberg, Apr 1991, cover (colour illus.).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Loan exhibition: to inaugurate the first completed portion of the gallery, on Her Majesty's birthday, 24th May 1897, Sydney, 1897. cat.no. 365
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Barry Pearce and Haruo Arikawa, Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 98 (colour illus.). cat.no. 53
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Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836 to 1946, Sydney, 1946, 4, 9. cat.no. 11
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, 'An exhibition of watercolours', Sydney, 01 Dec 1891. A review of the Watercolour Competition held at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, November-December 1891; refered to as 'A spell on the road'
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Daily telegraph, 'National Art Gallery, the water-colour competition', Sydney, 02 Dec 1892, page unknown. see AGNSW Press Clippings 1884-1896, pg. 80a
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Illustrated Sydney News, 'Round about the studios', pg. 5, Sydney, 30 Aug 1890, 5.
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