Title
The pink heron
1969
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- The pink bird (Fiji)
Pink bird - Place where the work was made
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Fiji
- Date
- 1969
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 137.4 x 122.0 cm board
- Credit
- Gift of Patrick White 1979
- Location
- Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills
- Accession number
- 8.1979
- Copyright
- © Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Brett Whiteley
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Patrick White's choice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Dec 1981–31 Jan 1982
Brett Whiteley - the genius (1999-2000), Bank Art Museum Moree, Moree, 27 Nov 1999–28 Jan 2000
Blue (2011), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 09 Jul 2011–08 Jul 2012
Whiteley on Water, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 17 Nov 2012–27 Jan 2013
Whiteley on the Water, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 02 Nov 2013–23 Jan 2014
Brett Whiteley: Other Places (somewhere else), Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, 28 Apr 2017–02 Jul 2017
Brett Whiteley: Other Places (somewhere else), Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Caboolture, 14 Jul 2017–17 Sep 2017
Brett Whiteley: Other Places (somewhere else), Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, 29 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
Brett Whiteley: Blue and White, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 30 Apr 2022–27 Nov 2022
Brett Whiteley: Chapters 1959–69, The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 24 Aug 2023–2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Helen Hewitt, Voices, 'Patrick White: painter manqué', pg. 61-70, Canberra, Winter 1997, 67-68.
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Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, painter, manqué: paintings, painters and their influence on his writing, 'White and the Sydney Art World: 2', pg. 84-93, Carlton, 2002, following 48 (colour illus.), 92, 94, 98, 116, 155.
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Sandra McGrath, Brett Whiteley, Kensington, 1979, 96 (colour illus.). NOTE: pg. 94 (illus.) photograph of the interior of the artist's studio shows a similar if not the same work in an incomplete state.
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Barry Pearce, Australian Artists, Australian Birds, North Ryde, 1989, 145 (colour illus.). plate no. 126
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Eleonora Triguboff (Editor), Art & Australia, Sydney, Summer 2012, 232 (colour illus.). advertisement for the exhibition 'Brett Whiteley: on the water'
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Patrick White, Patrick White's Choice, Sydney, Dec 1981. cat.no. 13
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