Title

The Bridge, South Coast landscape

1936

Artist

Lloyd Rees

Australia

17 Mar 1895 – 02 Dec 1988

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Details

Place where the work was made

New South Wales → Australia

Date

1936

Media category

Drawing

Materials used

pencil, pen and black ink, wash on cream wove paper

Dimensions

35.7 x 49.3 cm sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date

Signed and dated l.r., pencil "L REES/ 1936".

Credit

Purchased 1938

Location

Not on display

Accession number

6616

Copyright

© A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
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Lloyd Rees
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Works in the collection

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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.
Places

Where the work was made

New South Wales
Exhibition history
Shown in 10 exhibitions
- Society of Artists Prints and Drawings (1936), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 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, Sydney, 01 Aug 1942–30 Aug 1942
- Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Oct 1969–02 Nov 1969
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Nov 1969–Dec 1969
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 01 Feb 1970–28 Feb 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 17 Mar 1970–13 Apr 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 01 May 1970–31 May 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 18 Jun 1970–21 Jul 1970
- Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993
  
  Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993
- Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Mar 1995–14 May 1995
  
  Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 09 Jun 1995–16 Jul 1995
  
  Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 01 Sep 1995–15 Oct 1995
  
  Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 04 Nov 1995–01 Jan 1996
  
  Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 24 Jan 1996–11 Mar 1996
- Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
- Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
- Lloyd Rees: works from the South Coast, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, 26 Oct 2013–14 Dec 2013
- Painting with Pencil - Lloyd Rees: Sydney Drawings 1930-36, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 Dec 2015–10 Apr 2016
Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
- Christopher Allen, The Weekend Australian, 'Tangible Life Forms', pg. 12-13, Sydney, 01 Jun 2013-02 Jun 2013, 13.
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, (Lloyd Rees), ‘Foreword’, pp 2-3, Sydney, 1942, 2 (illus.), 6, 13. cat.no. 13
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Lloyd Rees Retrospective, 'Catalogue: drawings', pp 32-35, Sydney, 1969, 34. cat.no. 140
- Lou Klepac (Editor), Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, ‘The catalogue’, pp 14-20, Melbourne, 1993, 14. cat.no. 13
- Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 55 (illus.). cat.no. 44
- Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, 'Introduction', pp 7-19, Sydney, 1995, 16, 63 (illus.). cat.no. 64
- Renee Renée, Lloyd Rees, ‘Sydney: 1917-42’, pp 23-50, Melbourne, 1972, 47 (illus.), 122. cat.no. D192
- Daniel Thomas, Art and Australia, 'Australian collection', pp 52-62, Sydney, Jul 1972, 55 (illus.).
- Roland Wakelin, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'The artistic development of Lloyd Rees', pp 490-492, Sydney, Oct 1969, 497 (illus.). 'Lloyd Rees special number'