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Margo Lewers

(Australia 23 Apr 1908–1978)

Title
Mine tunnel
Year
1956
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on hardboard
Dimensions

91.5 x 137.2cm

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., oil "Margo Lewers 56".
Credit
Purchased 1956
Accession number
9251
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (7)

Kym Bonython (Australia, b.1920) (Author), Ross K Luck (Australia, active 1967) (Author), Laurie Thomas (Australia, b.1915, d.1974) (Author), Elwyn Lynn (Australia, b.1917, d.1997) (Author), Modern Australian painting, 1950/1975, Adelaide, 1980, 32 (colour illus.).

Clive Turnbull (Author), Jean Campbell (Australia) (Author), Daniel Thomas (Author), Australian painting: colonial, impressionist, contemporary, Adelaide, 1962, 44, 91 (illus.) [note this illustration has been reproduced upside-down]. cat.no. 141

Author Unknown (Author), The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962: Special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1962. not paginated, cat.no. 149

Laurie Thomas (Australia, b.1915, d.1974) (Author), Kym Bonython (Australia, b.1920) (Compilator), Modern Australian painting and sculpture: a survey of Australian art from 1950-1960, Adelaide, 1960, 66 (illus.).

Daily telegraph and daily news 12 Sep 1956, 12 Sep 1956.

National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Purchases and Acquisitions for 1956 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 8. cat.no. 10

Gerald and Margo Lewers (1956), Sydney, 1956. cat.no. 31

Exhibition history (5)

Gerald and Margo Lewers, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, circa 07 Sep 1956–circa 21 Sep 1956.

Orban studio: 20th anniversary exhibition of paintings by past and present students (1961), Vickery's Galleries, 26 Oct 1961–02 Nov 1961.

Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), National Gallery of South Australia, 17 Mar 1962–31 Mar 1962.

Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Art Gallery of Western Australia, 23 Sep 1962–24 Oct 1962.

Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Tate Britain, 24 Jan 1963–03 Mar 1963.