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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Cloncurry
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Queensland
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1940s
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- sandstone carving, coloured with natural pigments
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 6.0 x 11.2 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Preston 1948
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 8080
- Copyright
- © Nora Nathan Estate
- Artist information
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Nora Nathan
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About
This work was gifted to the Art Gallery by the artist Margaret Preston in 1948. Between 1927 and 1947 Preston travelled widely in the central and northern parts of Australia, searching out and studying firsthand the bark paintings and carvings of Aboriginal artists. These works were likely collected by Preston on either her 1940 or 1944 trip to Cloncurry in Queensland. 'Young girl waiting for her lover' is an example of an unusual style of sandstone carving, originating near Boulia in central Queensland.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 11 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, Aboriginal art collections: highlights from Australia's public museums and galleries, 'Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney', pg. 40-45, Sydney, 2001, 41.
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Hetti Perkins and Ken Watson, A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999, 1.
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