Title
The Bridge, South Coast landscape
1936
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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New South Wales
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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
- Artist information
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Lloyd Rees
Works in the collection
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About
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.
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Places
Where the work was made
New South Wales
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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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
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Christopher Allen, The Weekend Australian, 'Tangible Life Forms', pg. 12-13, Sydney, 01 Jun 2013-02 Jun 2013, 13.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, (Lloyd Rees), ‘Foreword’, pp 2-3, Sydney, 1942, 2 (illus.), 6, 13. cat.no. 13
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Lloyd Rees Retrospective, 'Catalogue: drawings', pp 32-35, Sydney, 1969, 34. cat.no. 140
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Lou Klepac (Editor), Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, ‘The catalogue’, pp 14-20, Melbourne, 1993, 14. cat.no. 13
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 55 (illus.). cat.no. 44
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, 'Introduction', pp 7-19, Sydney, 1995, 16, 63 (illus.). cat.no. 64
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Renee Renée, Lloyd Rees, ‘Sydney: 1917-42’, pp 23-50, Melbourne, 1972, 47 (illus.), 122. cat.no. D192
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Daniel Thomas, Art and Australia, 'Australian collection', pp 52-62, Sydney, Jul 1972, 55 (illus.).
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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'
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