Adrian Feint
(Australia 29 Jun 1894–25 Apr 1971)
- Title
- Flowers in sunlight
- Other titles:
- Flower piece
- Year
- 1940
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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50.5 x 45.5cm stretcher; 70.6 x 65.5 x 6.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, dark red (oil?) "Adrian Feint/ 1940".
- Credit
- Purchased 1940
- Accession number
- 7001
- Copyright
- © Estate of Adrian Feint
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
His was an exquisite art that mirrored the tranquillity of his life and the refinement of his tastes … in his flower pieces, his imagination found an outlet in combining man-made objects from other lands with flowers and growths of the sandstone belt of our eastern seaboard. These are not flower pieces in the common-place and finite sense; they are flower arrangements meticulously designed, superbly painted, and set in a related environment of time and space.
Douglas Dundas, 1971
Adrian Feint was a student at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and Elioth Gruner, his painting practice extending from his work as a modern designer. As his subject in 'Flowers in sunlight' suggests, Feint’s still lifes have also been noted for their surreal quality, achieved through a synthesis of an almost analytical realism and the subdued mood of expansive backdrops, creating worlds of pure aesthetic illusion.
- Bibliography (10)
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Sotheby's Australia (Australia), Sotheby's Sydney: Important Australian Art (31 August 2010), Melbourne, 2010, 160, 161 (colour illus.). RELATED WORK: 'Mixed flowers in the ram's head cornucopia vase' 1970, 42.5 x 37.5cm, private collection. This work is illustrated on page 160. It features the same ram head cornucopia featured in the Gallery's work.
Richard Heathcote (Australia) (Editor), Adrian Feint: Cornucopia, Kent Town, 2009, 13 (colour illus.).
Paula Dredge (Author), Margaret Sawicki (Australia) (Author), Steven Miller (Australia) (Author), Lindsay Parker (Australia, b.1939, d.2003) (Author), S.A. Parker Framing Works, Domain, 2004, 54 (illus.).
Margaret Olley (Australia, b.1923, d.2011) (Author), Barry Humphries (Australia, b.1934) (Author), Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Director), Christine France (Australia) (Co-ordinator), Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections, Sydney, 2000. Catalogue entry appears in inserted list to printed catalogue: Selections by Barry Humphries
'The art of Adrian Feint' by Craig Judd, pg. 78-83., Art and Australia (vol. 32, no. 1) Spring 1994, Spring 1994, 80 (colour illus.), 81.
Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Author), Seeing is believing: the art in photography, Sydney, 1985, (colour illus.). cat.no. 18; not paginated
Herbert Badham (Australia, b.1899, d.1961) (Author), A gallery of Australian art, Sydney, 1954, xii, (illus.). plate no. 72
Herbert Badham (Australia, b.1899, d.1961) (Author), A study of Australian art, Sydney, 1949, (illus.). plate no. 80; titled 'Flower piece'
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), 100 years of Australian painting, Sydney, 1948, 9. cat.no. 45; titled 'Flowers in sunlight'
Sydney Ure Smith (Australia, b.1887, d.1949) (Editor), Art of Australia 1788-1941, New York, 1941, 42, 86 (illus.). cat.no. 97; asterix indicates work exhibited only in Canada
- Exhibition history (40)
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Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1940), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], 06 Sep 1940–25 Sep 1940.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01 Oct 1941–26 Oct 1941.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17 Nov 1941–31 Dec 1941.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 15 Jan 1942–15 Feb 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Yale University Art Gallery, 02 Mar 1942–23 Mar 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Carnegie Institute, 03 Apr 1942–15 May 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, 01 Jun 1942–27 Jun 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 10 Jul 1942–27 Aug 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Toledo Museum of Art, 06 Sep 1942–27 Sep 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, 05 Oct 1942–02 Nov 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Cleveland Museum of Art, 09 Nov 1942–07 Dec 1942.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Detroit Institiute of Arts, 01 Jan 1943–29 Jan 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 05 Feb 1943–28 Feb 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Art Association of Montreal, 07 Mar 1943–28 Mar 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 08 Apr 1943–05 May 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Fort Wayne Art School and Museum, 12 May 1943–31 May 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 07 Sep 1943–08 Oct 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Philbrook Art Museum, 20 Oct 1943–17 Nov 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, 28 Nov 1943–26 Dec 1943.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, 10 Jan 1944–07 Feb 1944.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Heard Museum, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, 21 Feb 1944–20 Mar 1944.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, San Francisco Museum of Art, 04 Apr 1944–07 May 1944.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rosicrucian Egyptian Oriental Museum, 19 May 1944–16 Jun 1944.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Hamline University, 01 Dec 1944–17 Dec 1944.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Society Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial, 06 Jan 1945–27 Jan 1945.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 06 Feb 1945–27 Feb 1945.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Quincy Art Club, 09 Mar 1945–30 Mar 1945.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Oklahoma Art Center, 13 Apr 1945–04 May 1945.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, University of Oklahoma, 14 May 1945–04 Jun 1945.
Art of Australia 1788-1941, North Texas State Teachers' College, 14 Jun 1945–05 Jul 1945.
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948.
Travelling Art Exhibition 1953. Still life and flower paintings by Australian artists, Church of England Parish Hall, 16 Mar 1953–30 Mar 1953.
Travelling Art Exhibition 1953. Still life and flower paintings by Australian artists, Young Public Library, 14 Apr 1953–28 Apr 1953.
Travelling Art Exhibition 1953. Still life and flower paintings by Australian artists, Bega County Council Exhibition Hall, 19 May 1953–02 Jun 1953.
Travelling Art Exhibition 1953. Still life and flower paintings by Australian artists, Wollongong High School Assembly Hall, 03 Aug 1953–15 Aug 1953.
Travelling Art Exhibition 1953. Still life and flower paintings by Australian artists, Taree Council Chambers, 15 Sep 1953–29 Sep 1953.
Travelling Art Exhibition 1953. Still life and flower paintings by Australian artists, Dubbo Mechanics' Institute, 13 Oct 1953–27 Oct 1953.
Seeing is believing - the art in photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Dec 1985–19 Jan 1986.
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000.
The art of the picture frame, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 May 2003–12 Sep 2003.
