Robert MacPherson
(Australia 1937– )
- Title
- Untitled (the late Mr Curtin our great Prime Minister), from the series '555 Frog poems'
- Year
- 1990-1992
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil and mixed media
- Dimensions
-
29.3 x 41.7cm sheet; 60.8 x 60.8 x 2.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed u.l., pencil "Robert Pene...". Not dated [Robert Pene is MacPherson's alter ego, see notes]
- Credit
- Purchased 1994
- Accession number
- 582.1994.1
- Copyright
- © Robert MacPherson
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
These six works are from a prolific series of drawings, '555 Frog poems' which purport to be the work of Robert Pene, a Grade IV student at St Joseph's Convent. It is a kind of alter ego for MacPherson and maps the concerns he always has for place and personal history.
