Collection
Joy Hester
(Australia 21 Aug 1920–04 Dec 1960)
- Title
- Frightened
- Year
- circa 1945
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- brush and black and red ink, wash on paper
- Dimensions
-
31.9 x 20.3cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1993
- Accession number
- 532.1993
- Copyright
- © Joy Hester. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'Frightened' is a confronting, sombre work that explores extremes of human emotion and instinct. Joy Hester's intense and forceful drawings in brush and ink have a quality of intimacy that reveal her affinity and insight into the complexities of life, deeply felt and evocatively expressed in a considerable body of drawings and paintings.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (3)
-
Michele Helmrich, Brought to light: Australian Art 1850-1965, ''When Threads are Drawn Across a Nervous-Pattern. Joy Hester Man and tree', pg. 192-95, South Brisbane, 1998, 192.
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection 1997, Domain, 1997, 75 (illus.). cat.no. 66
Terence Maloon and Peter Raissis (Editors), Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure 1999, Domain, 1999. cat.no. 127
- Exhibition history (3)
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Review - works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Nov 1999–27 Feb 2000
