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Details
- Date
- 1894
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 x 108.0 cm; 95.3 x 144.5 x 13.0 cm (frame) (incl. slip)
- Credit
- Gift of H. Bush 1894
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 6020
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jessie E Scarvell
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About
A student of celebrated landscape artist William Lister Lister, Jessie Emily Scarvell first exhibited with the Art Society of NSW in 1892, prior to her election as a member of the council in 1894. She showed regularly with the group until 1898, with this work – exhibited in 1894 – her first to enter an Australian public collection.
The 'Sydney Morning Herald' critic commended Scarvell for her delicate handling of the subject, noting 'the sand-dune glistening in the strong light is treated with commanding skill, and in spite of the seeming bareness of the subject, the artist has contrived to achieve the picturesque'.
In 1901, Scarvell married pastoralist Charles Bundock and moved to his property, Kooralbyn – a Yugambeh word meaning the place of the copperhead snake – in Queensland, where she became celebrated for her gardens. She is believed to have abandoned painting around the time of her marriage, like many women of the time, with her last known works painted in 1898.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1894), York Street Skating Rink, Sydney, 27 Sep 1894 -
Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, London, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
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Shonagh Koea, The Lonely Margins of the Sea, Glenfield, 1998, cover (colour illus.), inside back cover (colour illus.).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1899, Sydney, 1899. cat.no. 240, Oil Paintings-Australian
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1893, Sydney, 1893. cat.no. 433, Supplement, titled 'The lonely margin of the sea'
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Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Art Society of New South Wales Fifteenth Annual Exhibition Catalogue, 1894, 35, 36 (illus.). cat.no. 332, Jessie E. Scarvell, 'The Lonely Margin of the Sea', £31.10.0
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Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 186.
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 1.9.1891-4.5.1898, Sydney, 1891-1898, 15 November 1894.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 29 Sep 1894, 6. NOTE: Review of the 1894 Spring exhibition of the Art Society of NSW
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Sydney mail and New South Wales advertiser, 'Pictures at the exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales, 1894 - second series', Sydney, 13 Oct 1894, 747 (illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Australian Art in London', Sydney, 12 May 1898, unknown. NOTE: Review of an exhibition of Australian paintings held at Grafton Gallery.
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