Title

The rose

1927

Artist

Thea Proctor

Australia

02 Oct 1879 – 29 Jul 1966

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Alternate image of The rose by Thea Proctor

Details

Date

1927

Media category

Print

Materials used

woodcut, printed in black ink, hand-coloured on thin ivory laid tissue

Dimensions

22.1 x 20.8 cm blockmark (irreg.); 41.1 x 26.6 cm sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date

Signed l.r., pencil "Thea Proctor".
Signed within block to print u.r. corner, incised "TP [monogram]".

Credit

Purchased 1975

Location

Not on display

Accession number

222.1975

Copyright

© Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Thea Proctor
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Works in the collection

58

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About

Proctor's image of fashionable, independent women and their shared pleasure in the fragrance and beauty of flowers, epitomises the artist's championing of the feminine. Its modern approach through a simplified, close-up view, in bright, unmodulated colour also reflects the artist's enthusiasm for Japanese prints. Based on a coloured pencil drawing, originally created as a cover for 'The Home' magazine, the artist's cousin Hera Roberts is seen on the right.
Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
- Project 21 - Womens images of women (1977), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1977–13 Nov 1977
- Project 39 - Women's Imprint (1982), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1982–31 Oct 1982
- Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
- Art Deco: from Sydney cinemas and pubs to skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 Jun 1999–05 Sep 1999
- 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
- Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
Bibliography
Referenced in 23 publications
- Jude Adams, Barbara Hall and Jennifer Barber, Project 21: Women's images of women, Sydney, 1977. cat.no. 36; Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Ann Elias, Sydney College of the Arts, Useless beauty: Flowers and Australian art, United Kingdom, 2015, 130, 241, plate 44 (colour illus.).
- Roger Arthur Butler and Chris Deutscher, A survey of Australian relief prints 1900/1950, Armadale, 1978, 28 (illus.). cat.no. 41; Collection of impression not identified, possibly the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
- Roger Arthur Butler, Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955, 'Exemplars: Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor', pg. 164-173, Canberra, 2007, 167 (colour illus.), 169. Collection of National Gallery of Australia
- Helen Campbell, Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, 'Introduction', pg. 2, Sydney, 2010, cover (colour illus.), 3 (colour illus.).
- Helen Campbell, Look, 'Colour, rhythm and design: Wood and lino cuts from a time of great creative vitality', pg. 13-15, Sydney, Feb 2010, 13 (colour illus.), 14.
- Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Prints & Drawings', pg. 115-122, Sydney, 1984, 120 (colour illus.).
- Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne (Compilator), Deutscher and Hackett fine art auction: Melbourne 28 November 2012, Catalogue entry for Lot 46 Thea Proctor 'The rose', pg. 99, Melbourne, 2012, 99 (colour illus.). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
- Nicholas Draffin, Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 12, 39 (colour illus.). Collection of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, 3 (illus.), 25. Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Janda Gooding, Thea Proctor, 'Introduction', pg. 2-6, Perth, 1982, 2, 12 (colour illus.). cat.no. 6; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
- Robert Holden, Cover Up: The art of magazine covers in Australia, 'Myth Australia: the new-look woman', pg. 100-117, Sydney, 1995, 91, 103, 105 (colour illus.), 106.
- Jane Hylton, Modern Australian women: paintings & prints 1925-1945, Adelaide, 2000, 35 (colour illus.), 74, 125. Collection of Art Gallery of South Australia
- Susan McCulloch, Alan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art, Carlton, 2006, 798 (colour illus.).
- Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 37 (colour illus.).
- Peter McNeil, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'Thea Proctor: towards a stylish Australia', pg. 98-103, Sydney, 2013, 99 (colour illus.), 315.
- Jan Minchin, The prints: Thea Proctor, 'Thea Proctor: a biography', pg. 6-13, Sydney, 1980, 19 (illus.), 20, 60, 61 (colour illus.). cat.no. 19; Illustration on page 19 is the Cover for July 1927 'The Home'; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
- Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Women artists and the decorative arts 1880-1935: the gender of ornament, 'Owning femininity: Thea Proctor and the Australian Avant-garde', pg. 73-95, Aldershot, 2002, 78.
- Andrew Sayers, The world of Thea Proctor, 'Thea Proctor: artist and tastemaker', pg. 4-15, Canberra, 2005, 11, 44, 50, 122 (colour illus.). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
- Catherine Stuart and Paul Finucane, Odd roads to be walking: 156 women who shaped Australian art, Cork, 2019, 93 (colour illus.).
- Helen Topliss, Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, 'Decoration and the art of the print', pg. 141-171, Sydney, 1996, 158, 159 (colour illus.), 161. illustration 94; Collection of National Gallery of Australia
- Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 26], Sydney, Dec 1928, 29 (illus.). Advertisement
- Anna Waldmann, Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Sydney, 1982. NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression. Collection S.H. Ervin Gallery.