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Mary M. Edwell-Burke

(Australia, Fiji 19 Jun 1894–19 Jan 1988)

Title
Self Portrait
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

109.5 x 96.2cm stretcher; 137.7 x 124.0 x 10.0cm frame:

0 - Whole; 107.8 x 93.4cm; SIGHT DIMENSIONS

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "Mary Edwards 36-".
Credit
Purchased 1937
Accession number
6388
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne (Australia, estab. 2003) (Editor), Australian fine art: Wednesday 26 August at 6pm Melbourne, Melbourne, 2008, 63 (illus.). NOTE: Painting titled 'Self Portrait' 1948 is very similar to the Gallery's painting.

Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994) (Author), Artists by artists, Sydney, 1954. cat.no. 25; NOTE: artist's name at that time was Mary Edwards

Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. not paginated, cat.no. 5 [Gallery No. 1]

Art in Australia: art and architecture [series 3, no. 66] Feb 1937, Feb 1937, 33 (illus.).

Exhibition history (3)

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman (1936), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Jan 1937–15 Feb 1937.

Australia's 150th anniversary celebrations: All Australian art exhibition (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jan 1938–Apr 1938.

Artists by artists (1954), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Nov 1954–05 Dec 1954.