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G. K. Townshend

(Australia 1888–1969)

Title
The guardians
Year
circa 1947
Media category
Watercolour
Materials used
pencil, watercolour, scraping out
Dimensions

34.6 x 45.9cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed l.r., black watercolour "GK Townshend". Not dated.
Credit
Marshall Bequest Fund 1947
Accession number
7923
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (3)

Peter Laverty (England; Australia, b.1926) (Author), Jean Campbell (Australia) (Author), Peter Pinson (Australia, b.1943) (Author), The Australian Watercolour Institute, Willoughby, 2006, 7.

Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 4-5 (illus., detail), 16, 75 (colour illus.), 121. cat.no. 64

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, 14. watercolours cat.no. 17

Exhibition history (4)

100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948.

Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996.

Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1996–1996.

Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1996–1996.