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An image of Motherhood by Bertram Mackennal

Bertram Mackennal

(Australia, England, France 12 Jun 1863–10 Oct 1931)

Title
Motherhood
Other titles:
The mother
Year
(circa 1909)
Media category
Sculpture
Materials used
bronze group
Dimensions

93.0 x 34.0 x 37.0cm

Credit
Bequest of Henry Austin 1949
Accession number
8173
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (5)

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Bertram Mackennal: the fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Sydney, 2007, 9 (detail, colour illus.), 68, 72 (detail, colour illus.), 74, 116, 118.

Bertram Mackennal: Catalogue raisonné 2007, 2007, (colour illus.). Artworks: Sculptures: 1900s

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Domain, 1987. no catalogue numbers

Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 48; bronze lent by Mrs Austin

Macquarie Galleries (Australia, estab. 1925, closed 1993) (Author), Exhibition of bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Sydney, 1926. cat.no. 2; priced 250 gns

Exhibition history (7)

Exhibition of bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Macquarie Galleries, 07 Oct 1926–20 Oct 1926.

150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938.

Purchases and Acquisitions for 1949, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Dec 1949–17 Feb 1950.

Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1989.

Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.

Bertram Mackennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 2007–04 Nov 2007.

Bertram Mackennal, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 30 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008.