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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
- 1934
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze, marble
- Dimensions
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29.7 x 14.5 x 18.0 cm overall
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a - head, 20.7 x 14.5 x 18 cm, head
b - base, 9 x 11.3 x 11.1 cm, base
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Donal and Jenny O'Donovan 1993
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 231.1993.a-b
- Copyright
- © Estate of Eileen McGrath
- Artist information
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Eileen McGrath
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About
The subject of this bronze bust is Norman McGrath, the artist's nephew and son of the architect and artist, Raymond McGrath (1903-77).
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Nov 1999–16 Jan 2000
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 83. cat.no. 53
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Deborah Edwards, 'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, 'Australia, the new Greece: the body as nation', pg. 30-51, Sydney, 1999, 40 (colour illus.), 41, 108.
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Ken Scarlett, Australian sculptors, Melbourne, 1980, 395 (illus.).
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