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Rayner Hoff
(United Kingdom, Australia 1894–1937)
- Title
- Mary Gilmore
- Year
- 1934
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze
- Dimensions
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33.4 x 22.6 x 25.0cm; 48.5 x 22.6 x 25.0cm overall:
a - head; 33.4 x 22.6 x 25cm; overall including base
b - base; 15.9 x 14 x 14cm
0 - Whole; 48.5 x 22.6 x 25cm
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated back of neck/base below neck, incised "RAYNER.HOFF.1934.".
- Credit
- Gift of Dame Mary Gilmore, D.H. Souter and the artist 1936
- Accession number
- 6359.a-b
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (11)
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'The new face of portraiture' by Laura Murray Cree, pg. 63-64., State of the arts Jul 2003-Sep 2003, Jul 2003-Sep 2003, 64.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 55, 56-57 (colour illus., detail), 81. cat.no. 39
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Domain, 2002, 63 (colour illus.), 69, 144, 147.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 136, 141 (colour illus.), 301.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), 'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Domain, 1999, 35, 36 (colour illus.), 103.
National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House] (Australia, estab. 1994, closed 2008) (Editor), The Possibilities of Portraiture, Canberra, 1999, 6 (colour illus.).
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Author), Face to face: Australian portraits, Sydney, 1986, illus.. cat.no. 10
Ken Scarlett (b.1927) (Author), Australian Sculptors, Melbourne, 1980, 274, 275 (illus.), 276.
Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994) (Author), A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Domain, 1953. cat.no. 172
Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938, illus.. cat.no. 167 [Sculpture in Gallery No. 2]
Art in Australia [series 3, no. 62] Feb 1936, Feb 1936, 41 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (7)
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Sculpture of Rayner Hoff: Memorial Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 19 May 1938–04 Jun 1938.
110 Years of Australian Art, Blaxland Gallery, Sep 1950 -.
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953.
The possibilities of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 04 Mar 1999–20 Jun 1999.
'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Nov 1999–16 Jan 2000.
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003.
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003.
