Vera Blackburn
(Australia, England 23 May 1911–14 Aug 1991)
- Title
- Pattern
- Place of origin
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Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1936
- Media category
- Materials used
- linocut, black ink on cream wove oriental style paper
- Edition
- No edition printed, approximately 8 impressions
- Dimensions
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27.5 x 27.0cm blockmark
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Vera Blackburn August 1936". Signed within block to print l.l., incised "VB".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 1976
- Accession number
- 84.1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (6)
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Grahame Kime (Australia) (Author), Heaven on earth: Visions of arcadia, Gymea, 2005. List of works; not paginated
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Sydney by design: wood and linoblock prints by Sydney women artists between the wars, Canberra, 1995, 18 (illus.), 48. Collection of the National Gallery of Australia
Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Domain, 1982. no catalogue numbers; not paginated
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Vera Blackburn, Victoria, 1979, (illus.). plate no. 18; not paginated
Jane de Teliga (Australia) (Author), Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 2.
Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Author), Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 13, 63 (illus.). Collection oof Mrs P.M. Game, Kent, England.
- Exhibition history (5)
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Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980.
Art Deco and works from the period (1980), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 16 Jun 1980–14 Jul 1980.
Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982.
Art Deco: from Sydney cinemas and pubs to skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, 12 Jun 1999–05 Sep 1999.
Heaven on Earth: Visions of Arcadia, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 01 Oct 2005–27 Nov 2005.
