Lloyd Rees
(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)
- Title
- The Bridge, South Coast landscape
- Place of origin
-
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1936
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, pen and black ink, wash on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
-
35.7 x 49.3cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "L REES/ 1936".
- Credit
- Purchased 1938
- Accession number
- 6616
- Copyright
- © AGNSW
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
For Lloyd Rees, drawing was absolutely fundamental and remained so throughout his long and productive creative life; few other Australian artists have practised drawing more passionately or scrupulously. Indeed, when 'The bridge, South Coast landscape' was made in 1936, Rees was still immersed in a period where he focussed on drawing to the exclusion of all other media and established for himself a considerable reputation as a draughtsman of note. The drawing won Rees a Silver Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937 and is undoubtedly one of his finest drawings.
- Bibliography (8)
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Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 1997, 55 (illus.). cat.no. 44
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, Sydney, 1995, 16, 63 (illus.). cat.no. 64
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Editor), Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Melbourne, 1993, 14. cat.no. 13
'Australian collection' by Daniel Thomas, pg. 52-62., Art and Australia [vol. 10, no. 1] Jul 1972, Jul 1972, 55 (illus.).
Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Lloyd Rees, Melbourne, 1972, 47. cat.no. D192
'The artistic development of Lloyd Rees' by Roland Wakelin, pg. 490-492., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Oct 1969, Oct 1969, 497 (illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Sydney, 1969, 34. cat.no. 140
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), (Lloyd Rees), Sydney, 1942, illus..
- Exhibition history (18)
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Society of Artists Prints and Drawings (1936), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], 04 Sep 1936–02 Oct 1936.
Exposition International des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937 Paris World's Fair: Arts, crafts, sciences in modern life), Unknown, 24 May 1937–15 Nov 1937.
Lloyd Rees (1942), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Aug 1942–30 Aug 1942.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Oct 1969–02 Nov 1969.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Queensland Art Gallery, Nov 1969–Dec 1969.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 01 Feb 1970–28 Feb 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 17 Mar 1970–13 Apr 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of South Australia, 01 May 1970–31 May 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of Western Australia, 18 Jun 1970–21 Jul 1970.
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993.
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 Mar 1995–14 May 1995.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 09 Jun 1995–16 Jul 1995.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 01 Sep 1995–15 Oct 1995.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queensland Art Gallery, 04 Nov 1995–01 Jan 1996.
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 24 Jan 1996–11 Mar 1996.
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
