Title
Crescent Head and Point Plomer, New South Wales
1891
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Crescent Head, Point Plomer
Crescent Head and Point Plomer from Port Macquarie - Place where the work was made
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Port Macquarie
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1891
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour, white gouache highlights
- Dimensions
- 72.9 x 54.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, brown watercolour "B.E. MINNS/ 1891.".
- Credit
- Purchased 1891
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 27
- Copyright
- Artist information
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BE Minns
Works in the collection
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About
Benjamin Edwin Minns came to Sydney from Inverell, western New South Wales, as an adolescent. He shared accomodation with Charles Conder in William Street and studied under AJ Daplyn and Julian Ashton. In 1895 he travelled to London, where he lived for twenty years. During this time he worked for London 'Punch' and other magazines, including Sydney's 'Bulletin'. Minns is best known for his humorous outback drawings in the 'Bulletin' and for a remarkable series of early portraits of Aborigines, a number of which are in the Gallery's collection. Minns was much respected for his reserve. In the special 'Art in Australia' issue devoted to him in 1932, MJ McNally wrote:
'Minns expands in his praise of others, but getting him to speak of his own efforts and outlook is like attempting to start a discussion on the Bionomial Theorem with a Baby Austin.'
This watercolour shows Cresent Head in the distance, with Point Plomer in the foreground. Both are promontories on the north coast of New South Wales, just north of Port Macquarie.
excerpt from Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, '19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels in the Gallery's collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Watercolour drawings competition - scenery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Nov 1891–01 Jan 1892
World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Jackson Park, Chicago, , 01 May 1893–30 Oct 1893
Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, London, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898
Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836-1946, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 May 1946–Jun 1946
Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection (1991), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1991–07 Jul 1991
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Apr 2005–24 Jul 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Australian art in London, London, 1898. cat.no. 174
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2005, 106, 107 (colour illus.).
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Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836 to 1946, Sydney, 1946, 4, 8. cat.no. 8; titled 'Crescent Head and Point Plomer from Port Macquarie'
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Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836 to 1946, Sydney, 1946. cat.no. 8
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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: Catalogue of the exhibits in the New South Wales Courts, 'Department K - fine arts, painting, sculpture, architecture and decoration. Grou, p 141, Sydney, 1893, 440. cat.no. 1, section 1191 as 'Crescent Head, Point Plomer'
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