Title
Ploughed fields at Mirboo North near Thorpedale, Victoria
1955
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Victoria
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Australia
- Date
- 1955
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour, gouache
- Dimensions
- 35.7 x 48.3 cm image/sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., pen and black ink "Shay Docking". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Lauris Elms AM OBE 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 527.2000
- Copyright
- © Shay Docking Estate
- Artist information
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Shay Docking
Works in the collection
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About
This is a major early watercolour which reveals something of Shay Docking's development as an artist - the influence of 20th century English Romanticism with Surrealist overtones e.g. in the work of Paul and John Nash, John Piper and Eric Ravilious. It also reveals her love of the Victorian landscape of her youth. Shay Docking's husband, Gil Docking, remembers his wife making this watercolour when she accompanied him on one of his extended stints to country centres in Victoria as an Education Officer managing the Travelling Exhibition Programme for the National Gallery of Victoria.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Victoria
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Song of earth and sea: Shay Docking 1955 - 1996, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, 26 Aug 2011–14 Oct 2011
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Rhonda Davis and Leonard Janiszewski (Curators), Songs of earth and sea: Shay Docking 1955-1996, Sydney, 2011, 75.
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