Collection
Godfrey Miller
(Australia 20 Aug 1893–10 May 1964)
- Title
- Seated female nude
- Other titles:
- Seated female nude (leaning on a chair back)
- Year
- (circa 1957)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
-
38.1 x 28.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. pencil "GM". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1957
- Accession number
- 9380
- Copyright
- © Estate of Godfrey Miller
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Godfrey Miller studied in New Zealand, Melbourne and London, and was an influential teacher at the East Sydney Technical College from the 1940s until his death in 1964. His lattice-like paintings – comprising small geometric divisions and a restricted palette – express his enduring interest in spiritual and scientific systems, from cosmology to anthroposophy. Godfrey Miller drew the figure from life continuously with an increasing tendency towards the radical distillation of form. The figure drawings emphasise gravity, structure, rhythm and balance.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
- Bibliography (5)
-
Elizabeth Cross, Look Aug 2005, 'On drawing', pg. 22-27, Newtown, Aug 2005, 22 (colour illus.), 23, 25.
Sasha Grishin, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection 2002, 'Roger Kemp / Godfrey Miller', pg. 104-115, Domain, 2002, 113 (colour illus.), 145.
Hendrik Kolenberg, The portrait and the nude: Australian drawings from the collection 1990, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 56
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection 1997, Domain, 1997, 89 (illus.). cat.no. 81
Macquarie Galleries, (Godfrey Miller) 1957, Sydney, 1957. cat.no. 12
- Exhibition history (5)
-
Godfrey Miller 1957, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 07 Jul 1957–17 Jul 1957
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1957, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Feb 1958–16 Mar 1958
The portrait and the nude: Australian drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Aug 1990–28 Oct 1990
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
