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Details
- Other Title
- Blackboys
- Date
- (post 1938)
- Media category
- Materials used
- linocut, printed in colour from six blocks on thin ivory laid tissue
- Edition
- unknown impression from edition of 50
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 22.9 cm image; 30.3 x 27.7 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed within block to print l.r. corner, blue ink "DB [monogram]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr J.F.B. Black 1968
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DA30.1968
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Dorrit Black
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About
The subject derives from a stay on the farm 'Woodenup' (owned by one of the artist's uncles) in the Kojunup region of Western Australia.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Mar 2010–11 Jul 2010
Modern impressions; Australian prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Sep 2016–Jan 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Helen Campbell, Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, 'Introduction', pg. 2, Sydney, 2010, 21 (colour illus.).
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Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, 'The Australians: Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme', pg. 65-68, England, 1995, 162, 163 (illus.). cat.no. DB 41; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
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Josef Lebovic, Masterpieces of Australian printmaking, Sydney, 1987, 12, 13 (colour illus.). cat.no. 8; titled 'Blackboys'; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
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Tracey Lock-Weir., Dorrit Black: unseen forces, 'The modern medium: colour linocuts', Adelaide, 2014, 92, 160, 163 (colour illus.), 197, 205 (cat. entry). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
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Ian North, The art of Dorrit Black, North Melbourne, 1979.
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