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Title
The giant cable
1931
Artist
Sybil Andrews
England, Canada
19 Apr 1898 - 21 Dec 1992
Details
Other Title
The new cable
Date
1931
Materials used
colour linocut
Edition
26/50, i of 2 states
Dimensions
31.3 x 42.7 cm image; 35.8 x 47.5 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed u.l. image, pencil "Sybil Andrews". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1976
Location
Not on display
Accession number
229.1976
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Sybil Andrews
The giant cable
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Claude Flight and his Followers: The colour linocut movement between the wars:
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 17 Apr 1992–26 Jul 1992
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 06 Oct 1992–29 Nov 1992
- National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne 16 Dec 1992–01 Mar 1993
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, Wellington 19 Mar 1993–16 May 1993
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland 03 Jun 1993–18 Jul 1993
Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1994–25 Sep 1994
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
Modernists: selections from the European collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 2015–25 Apr 2016
Referenced in 9 publications
Bibliography
Clifford Ackley (Editor), British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939, Boston, 2011, p 134, col illus p 144. cat no 80
Frances Carey, Antony Griffiths and Stephen Coppel, Avant-garde British printmaking, 1914-1960, 1990, pp 85-86, illus p 85. cat no 64
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, England, 1995, p 110, illus p 111. cat no SA 17
Stephen Coppel, Claude Flight and His Followers: The colour linocut movement between the wars, Checklist, p18-23, Canberra, 1992, p 18. cat no 6
Renée Free, Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1994.
Ted Gott, Laurie Benson and Sophie Matthiesson, Modern Britain 1900-1960, Melbourne, 2007, p 99, col illus.
Hana Leaper, Sybil Andrews Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue, Farnham, 2015, pp 21, 34, p 64 (col illus). cat no 19
Gordon Samuels, Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School Linocuts, London, 2015, col illus p 47.
Peter White, Sybil Andrews: Colour Linocuts, Calgary, 1982, pp 26, 54, illus p 54. cat no 17