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Rayner Hoff
(United Kingdom, Australia 1894–1937)
- Title
- Head of an Aboriginal boy
- Other titles:
- Aboriginal head
- Year
- 1925
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- terracotta, marble
- Dimensions
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29.0 x 14.5 x 20.0cm
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated verso on base, incised "1925/ G.RAYNER.HOFF.".
- Credit
- Gift of Sam and Heather Ure-Smith 2000
- Accession number
- 59.2000
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Bibliography (4)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 34, 81. cat.no. 38; titled 'Head of an Aboriginal boy'
'Year in review', pg. 8-20., Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2000 2000, 2000, 8.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), 'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Domain, 1999, 50 (illus.), 101. private collection
Howard Ashton (England; Australia, b.1877, d.1964) (Author), Earl of Beauchamp (England) (Author), Edwin Temple Smith (Author), W Bede Dalley (Author), Sculpture of Rayner Hoff, Sydney, 1934, 81 (illus.). titled 'Aboriginal'
- Exhibition history (4)
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Australian Academy of Art 1938, Vickery's Galleries, 08 Apr 1938–29 Apr 1938.
Sculpture of Rayner Hoff: Memorial Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 19 May 1938–04 Jun 1938.
'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Nov 1999–16 Jan 2000.
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003.
