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Collection

Alan Sumner

(Australia 10 Nov 1911–20 Oct 1994)

Title
Christmas morn
Place of origin
Collingwood → Melbourne → Victoria → Australia
Year
1945
Media category
Print
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)

Roger Butler, Alan Sumner screenprints: A catalogue Raisonné, Hawthorn East, 1993, 34, 35 (colour illus.). cat.no. 9

Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art 1994, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 78

Richard McMillian (Editor), Art Network Summer 1984, Sydney, Summer 1984, 12 (illus.).

Editor Unknown (Editor), Australasian post 23 May 1946, Melbourne, 23 May 1946, (illus.).

Exhibition history (1)

Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art: