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An image of Fisher family by David Strachan

David Strachan

(Australia, England 25 Jun 1919–23 Nov 1970)

Title
Fisher family
Year
1945
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on paperboard
Dimensions

20.5 x 25.1cm board; 39.2 x 44.1 x 3.5cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, incised and black ink "d Strachan XLV".
Credit
Purchased 1945
Accession number
7536
Copyright
© Reproduced with permission
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (6)

Steven Miller (Australia) (Author), Dogs in Australian art, Kent Town, 2012, 16 (colour illus.).

'Poetry out of everyday life' by Denise Mimmocchi, pg. 1-3., Guide to the papers of David Edgar Strachan (1919-1970) in the Archive of the Art Gallery of New South Wales 2001, 2001, front and back cover (colour illus., detail), 36.

'Strachan's deep, dark dream world' by Felicity Fenner., The Sydney Morning Herald 20 Feb 1993, 20 Feb 1993.

Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Editor), David Strachan, Sydney, 1993, 15 (colour illus.), 124. plate no. 5

Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 197.

Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994), Contemporary Australian painting from the National Collection, Sydney, circa 1946, 9. cat.no. 8

Exhibition history (6)

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

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

David Strachan (1919-1970) Retrospective (1993), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 04 Feb 1993–14 Mar 1993.

David Strachan (1919-1970) Retrospective (1993), Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery and Museum, 20 Mar 1993–18 Apr 1993.

David Strachan (1919-1970) Retrospective (1993), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 04 May 1993–20 Jun 1993.

David Strachan (1919-1970) Retrospective (1993), City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 23 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993.