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An image of The blue bay by Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Rees

(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)

Title
The blue bay
Year
circa 1938-1945
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

49.5 x 60.5cm stretcher; 64.0 x 75.4 x 6.5cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "L REES 38".
Credit
Purchased 1945
Accession number
7531
Copyright
© AGNSW
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (7)

Gavin Wilson (Australia) (Author), Harbourlife, Sydney, 2007, 56, 14-15, 14 (colour illus.).

The Brett Whiteley Studio (Australia, estab. 1994) (Author), Whiteley & Rees: More affinities, Sydney, 2005, (illus.). List of works

Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, Domain, 2001, 7.

The Brett Whiteley Studio (Australia, estab. 1994) (Editor), Big blue: the painted harbour (list of works), Sydney, 1997.

Sandra McGrath (United States of America; Australia) (Author), Robert Walker (Photographer), Sydney Harbour Paintings from 1794, Milton, 1979, 60 (colour illus.).

'The artistic development of Lloyd Rees' by Roland Wakelin, pg. 490-492., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Oct 1969, Oct 1969, 500 (illus.).

Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994), Contemporary Australian painting from the National Collection, Sydney, circa 1946, 7. cat.no. 5

Exhibition history (12)

Twentieth annual exhibition of the Contemporary Group (1945), Blaxland Gallery, Jul 1945 -.

Contemporary Australian painting from the National collection, Exhibition Venue Unknown, 1946–1950.

Sydney Harbour 1794-1979, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 03 Aug 1979–26 Aug 1979.

Images of Sydney and Environs 1850-1950 (1985), New South Wales House, Mar 1985–May 1985.

Big Blue - the painted harbour (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 Jun 1997–29 Mar 1998.

The well built Australian: Micheal Goldberg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Jul 1999–08 Aug 1999.

Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.

Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001.

Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 03 Dec 2005–09 Apr 2006.

Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006.

Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940s to recent times, Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, 30 Nov 2007–13 Jan 2008.

Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940s to recent times, Macquarie University Art Gallery, 23 Jan 2008–08 Mar 2008.