Title
Building the Harbour Bridge III, the granite workers, April 1929
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
- Materials used
- etching, foul bite, printed in brown ink with plate tone on cream wove paper
- Edition
- 4/30
- Dimensions
- 30.4 x 23.9 cm platemark; 45.7 x 29.3 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. beneath platemark, pencil "JCA Traill 1929".
- Credit
- Purchased 1975
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 200.1975
- Copyright
- © Estate of Jessie Traill/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jessie Traill
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Metropolis, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 18 Dec 1999–02 Apr 2000
Bridging Sydney, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 16 Dec 2006–29 Apr 2007
Stars in the river; the prints of Jessie Traill, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 16 Feb 2013–23 Jun 2013
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Peter Emmett, Metropolis, Glebe, 1999. Exhibition guide, brochure format.
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Caroline Mackaness, Bridging Sydney, Sydney, 2006, 168 (colour illus.).
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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, 161 (colour illus.), 316, 324.
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Macushla Robinson, Stars in the river: the prints of Jessie Traill, 'Building the Harbour Bridge series', pg. 52-61, Canberra, 2013, 9, 107, 114 (illus.), 146, 171 (illus.). NOTE: The text on page 107 speaks generally about Traill's Sydney Harbour Bridge works. 'Building the Harbour Bridge' series is specifically discussed on pages 56-60.
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 48 (colour illus.). cat.no. 68
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John Slater, Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945, 'Continuity and change', pg. 35-70, Melbourne, 2004, 59-60, 63, 74. Overall discussion of Traill's 'Bridge' etchings.
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Susannah Smith, Look, 'Women's work: their diverse and significant contribution to the modernist art scene', pg. 13-15, Sydney, Aug 2013, 14.
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