Title
Circular Quay from Milson's Point
(1929)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- (1929)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- coloured pencil, crayon
- Dimensions
- 45.7 x 34.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., black pencil "G. Cossington Smith". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DA5.1967
- Copyright
- © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith
- Artist information
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Grace Cossington Smith
Works in the collection
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About
Grace Cossington Smith visited the site of the Sydney Harbour Bridge many times during its construction, and produced some of the most memorable images of the project in a large number of sketchbook drawings. Her coloured pencil renditions of various aspects of the building express something of the bridge's architectural energy and its central symbolism as a marker of the modern age. This view of the bridge from the North Shore shares many of the elements of her oil painting of 1928-29 'The curve of the bridge', in the Gallery's collection.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 12 exhibitions
Society of Artists Special Exhibition of drawings, designs and watercolours (1929), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 06 May 1929–20 May 1929
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968
Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1994–25 Sep 1994
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 04 Mar 2005–13 Jun 2005
Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition (2005), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Oct 2005–15 Jan 2006
Henri Mallard: Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 10 Feb 2011–26 Mar 2011
Australian Modernists: Their responses to the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 10 Feb 2011–25 Mar 2011
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
Destination Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 11 Dec 2015–21 Feb 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 publications
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Jane de Teliga, Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 9.
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Renée Free, Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1994.
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Deborah Hart, Grace Cossington Smith, 'The curve of the bridge', pg. 130-133, Canberra, 2005, 132 (colour illus.), 176.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 12, 40, 41 (colour illus.). cat.no. 28
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Denise Mimmocchi, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'Icon of modernity: the Sydney Harbour Bridge', pg. 154-163, Sydney, 2013, 158 (colour illus.), 315, 324.
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Daniel Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Grace Cossington Smith', pg. 510-521, Sydney, Jan 1970, 517 (illus.), 521.
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 54
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John Williams, Quarantined Culture: Aust Reactions to Modernism, Sydney, 1995, 85, 197, 210, 211, 246.
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