John Brack
(Australia 1920–11 Feb 1999)
- Title
- Mirrors and scissors
- Other titles:
- Scissors [Crossley Gallery 1967]
- Year
- 1966
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, black ink on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 18/50
- Dimensions
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33.0 x 45.0cm platemark; 38.5 x 56.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "John Brack 66".
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Accession number
- DA3.1967
- Copyright
- © Helen Brack
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
John Brack was born in Melbourne and studied at evening drawing classes with Charles Wheeler at the National Gallery School, Melbourne from 1938-40 and again, following the war, full-time from 1946-49 where he studied with William Dargie. In 1950-52 he was an assistant at the Print Room of the National Gallery of Victoria, where he became well acquainted with the collection. He was Head of the National Gallery School 1962-68.
Brack first made prints in 1954, experimenting with etching and drypoint at Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne. In 1963 he began a series of paintings, the so-called 'surgical series', which features images of artificial limbs, surgical tools and related objects, inspired by commercial displays of a Melbourne surgical supplier. Brack made four etchings based on this theme in 1966 including 'Mirrors and scissors'.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
- Bibliography (1)
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Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 111 (illus.). cat.no. 92
- Exhibition history (2)
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Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968.
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.
