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Details
- Alternative title
- Shifting gravel
- Date
- 1935
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, black ink on white wove paper
- Edition
- 11/50
- Dimensions
- 21.3 x 27.0 cm platemark; 25.6 x 31.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, pencil "E. Warner".
Signed and dated within plate to print l.l. in reverse, "E Warner '35".- Credit
- Purchased 1935
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 6328
- Copyright
- © Estate of E Warner
- Artist information
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E Warner
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About
E. Warner was among the most prolific printmakers of the 1920s and 30s, exhibiting with the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society from 1923 as well as holding several solo exhibitions. His etchings and bookplates were frequently reproduced in 'Art in Australia' during the period, and he also made etchings under the pseudonyms G Marler, J Dodd, C Jack and Breuton. In addition, Warner produced colour woodcuts in collaboration with his brother, signed 'The Warners'.
Warner favoured landscapes, cityscapes and images of bush life, often with an emphasis on rural labour. 'Shifting gravel' is typical of Warner's etchings of the time, printed from a cleanwiped plate to produce a sharp contrast between the clean black of the etched line and the white of the paper lending the work a sun-bleached, almost photographic quality.
from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition of etchings by E. Warner. First series of 'Australia at work' together with some glimpses of our little known land', Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, , 01 Oct 1935–31 Oct 1935
Exhibition of etchings by E. Warner. First series of 'Australia at work' together with some glimpses of our little known land', Fine Arts Society Gallery, Melbourne, 20 Nov 1935–07 Dec 1935
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 616 [Gallery No. 5]
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 40 (colour illus.). cat.no. 55
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