Alan Sumner
(Australia 10 Nov 1911–20 Oct 1994)
- Title
- Christmas morn
- Place of origin
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Collingwood →
Melbourne →
Victoria →
Australia
- Year
- 1945
- Media category
- Materials used
- screenprint, printed in colour from 15 stencils
- Edition
- from an edition of 40
- Dimensions
-
39.6 x 45.6cm image
- Credit
- Purchased 1946
- Accession number
- 7698
- Copyright
- © Alan Sumner
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
"The first art work for this was an oil painting. It seemed to me a good group of shapes and forms. I redesigned it entirely for a screen print using mostly opaque colour with the line of figures dark against the light. Always I was interested first in the drawing or design, then the quality of the printing, next the colour harmony and finally the subject. Usually all these facets came together at the one time as I worked. I had not yet discovered how to arrive at transparencies".
Alan Sumner quoted in Roger Butler, 'Alan Sumner screenprints: A catalogue Raisonné', Eastgate Gallery, Melbourne, 1993
- Bibliography (4)
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Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 78
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Alan Sumner screenprints: A catalogue Raisonné, Hawthorn East, 1993, 34, 35 (colour illus.). cat.no. 9
Art Network Summer 1984, Summer 1984, 12 (illus.).
Australasian post 23 May 1946, 23 May 1946, (illus.).
- Exhibition history (4)
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Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995.
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995.
