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Details
- Date
- 1930
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- tempera on canvas on plywood
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 59.1 cm board; 34.3 x 57.8 cm sight edge; 47.3 x 70.5 x 3.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, green (tempera?) "MURCH 1930".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Visual Arts Board Australia Council Contemporary Art Purchase Grant 1975
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 57.1975
- Copyright
- © Murch Family/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Arthur Murch
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Project 19 - Arthur Murch (1977), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 1977–28 Aug 1977
Arthur Murch 1902-1989: A Retrospective, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 27 Aug 1992–20 Sep 1992
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
On The Beach (working title), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 11 Dec 2015–28 Feb 2016
Brave New World; Australia 1930s, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 14 Jul 2017–15 Oct 2017
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Classical allusions', pg. 135-136, Sydney, 2000, 136, 137 (colour illus.), 301.
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Liz Gibson, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Rayner Hoff / Arthur Murch', pg. 60-71, Sydney, 2002, 65 (colour illus.), 66, 145, 147.
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Barry Humphries., The Australian, 'Arcadia's pearly lustre', Sydney, 05 Jan 1994. page number unknown; copy in AGNSW Library's Australian artists' solo exhibition file under 'Arthur Murch'
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. 102-181, Sydney, 1999, 140 (colour illus.).
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Steven Miller, Look, 'An artist for all seasons: Arthur Murch', pg. 14, Melbourne, Jul 2000, 14.
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Ria Murch, Arthur Murch: An artist's life 1902-1989, Avalon Beach, 1997, 43, 68 (colour illus.), 147.
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Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries, Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections, Sydney, 2000. Catalogue entry appears in inserted list to printed catalogue: Selections by Barry Humphries
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Barry Pearce, Look, 'Arthur Murch A Human Eye', pg. 20, Heidelberg, Nov 1997, 20 (colour illus.).
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Daniel Thomas AM, Project 19: Arthur Murch, Sydney, 1977. cat.no. 3
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Daniel Thomas, Creating Australia: 200 years of art 1788-1988, 'Twentieth-Century Art: Culture', pg.146, Melbourne, 1988, 154 (colour illus.), 246.
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