Title
Woman filing her nails
(1943)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (1943)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 38.1 cm stretcher; 67.2 x 50.8 x 4.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, red oil "R Drysdale". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Anne Wienholt 1955
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9142
- Copyright
- © Estate of Russell Drysdale
- Artist information
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Russell Drysdale
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 11 exhibitions
Fourteen recent paintings by Russell Drysdale, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 14 Apr 1943–03 May 1943
Annual Exhibition (1943), Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 14 Aug 1943–01 Sep 1943
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1943), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 14 Aug 1943–01 Sep 1943
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Feb 1956–29 Feb 1956
Russell Drysdale: a retrospective exhibition of paintings from 1937 to 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Oct 1960–06 Nov 1960
Russell Drysdale: A retrospective exhibition; paintings 1937-1960 (Queensland Art Gallery), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 22 Apr 1961–28 May 1961
Russell Drysdale (Adelaide 1964), John Martin's Auditorium, , 04 Mar 1964–21 Mar 1964
Aspects of Australian art: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1976, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1976–1977
Russell Drysdale [at Monash University Gallery 1987], Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 13 Mar 1987–16 Apr 1987
Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 19 Dec 1997–09 Mar 1998
Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Mar 1998–10 May 1998
Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 18 May 1998–28 Jun 1998
Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 20 Jul 1998–30 Aug 1998
Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 23 Sep 1998–15 Nov 1998
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 16 publications
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Russell Drysdale, The paintings of Russell Drysdale: reproducing fifteen plates in colour with an essay by Joseph Burke, 'List of works and owners, 1951', pg.47-52, Sydney, 1951, 41 (colour illus), 50. plate no. 13
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Jenepher Duncan, Dr Joseph Brown, Rod Andrews and Margaret Plant, Russell Drysdale, Clayton, 1987, 42. cat.no. 23
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Geoffrey Dutton, Russell Drysdale, 'Russell Drysdale - the man and his work', pg. 7-84, London, 1964, 29 (colour illus.), 76, 183. plate no. VI
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Edwards and Shaw (Printer), Russell Drysdale: retrospective exhibition 1937 - 1960, Sydney, 1960. cat.no. 26
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Robert Hughes, The art of Australia, 'The stylists 1939-50', pg. 169-196, Melbourne, 1970, 193, 324.
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Lou Klepac, The life and work of Russell Drysdale, 'The war years', pg. 49-58, Kensington, 1983, 55, 240 (colour illus.), 366. plate no. 55
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Robert Lindsay., Aspects of Australian Art: Art Gallery of New South Wales travelling art exhibition 1976, 'Russell Drysdale', Sydney, 1976, (illus.). cat.no. 52; not paginated
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 6. cat.no. 6
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Charles Osborne, Masterpieces of Drysdale, London, 1975, 3 (colour illus.). plate no. 3; There is text on the verso of the illustration.
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Geoffrey Smith, Russell Drysdale 1912-1981, Melbourne, 1997, 60, 61 (colour illus.). cat.no. 14
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Sydney Ure Smith, Australian present day art, 'Russell Drysdale', pg. 32, Sydney, 1943, 32, 40 (illus.).
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Daniel Thomas AM and Paul Haefliger, Russell Drysdale; a retrospective exhibition of paintings from 1937 to 1960, Sydney, 1960, 55. cat.no. 26
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Daniel Thomas, Hemisphere, 'Drysdale's art changed the Australian outlook', pg. 12-18, Sydney, Nov 1960, 17 (illus.).
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Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Present day art in Australia, Sydney, 1949, 16 (colour illus.). Collection of Miss Anne Wienholt
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Sydney Ure Smith memorial catalogue, Sydney, 1950, 29 (colour illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Society of Artists book 1943, Sydney, 1943, 40 (illus.).
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