Fred Williams
(Australia, England 1927–1982)
- Title
- An actor on stage
- Year
- 1955-1956
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, engraving, printed in black ink on Kent paper
- Edition
- 10/11
- Dimensions
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12.4 x 12.4cm platemark; 16.8 x 16.4cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil 'Fred Williams.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Accession number
- DA11.1967
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Williams began making etchings in 1954, while a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Inspired to some degree by Sickert and Daumier, his subjects during this period, were often taken from drawings made on the spot of street-life and performers in music halls.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (1)
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Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints, Domain, 2001, 64 (illus.). cat.no. 22
- Exhibition history (3)
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Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Aug 2001–25 Nov 2001.
