Title
Study for 'A parley of Totems'
1988
Artist
-
Details
- Date
- 1988
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal, collage on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 46.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., charcoal "Gleeson 20.12.88.".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 174.2001
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
-
James Gleeson
Works in the collection
- Share
-
-
About
It is these drawings over which Gleeson places a gridded sheet of Perspex in order to transfer the image onto canvas. Therefore they are more than merely preliminary studies, but are the basis for, or final design for each painting.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2001
