Title
Sydney skyline from McMahons Point
1932
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Sydney skyline from McMahon's Point
- Date
- 1932
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour on white watercolour paper
- Dimensions
- 27.2 x 33.5 cm sheet; 54.8 x 50.5 cm mount size; 57.3 x 61.4 x 3.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, "L REES/ 1932".
- Credit
- Purchased with assistance from the artist 1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 304.1986
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Lloyd Rees
Works in the collection
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About
Sydney Harbour preoccupied Lloyd Rees as a subject in the 1930s, and he made many drawings of its environs. 'Sydney skyline from McMahon's Point' is a delicate and rare contrast to some of his more intensely worked and detailed pencil drawings, with gentle washes of watercolour. Unlike other artists of the time, Rees ignored the development of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a major engineering project of the day, preferring to concentrate on distant views of the city and the trees and rock formations that skirted the harbour foreshores.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Sydney Harbour Bridge celebrations, Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 21 Mar 1932–03 Apr 1932
Fine Australian paintings - Summer exhibition, Holland Fine Art, Double Bay, 01 Dec 1986–21 Dec 1986
Twentieth century Australian watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Apr 1989–25 Jun 1989
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Apr 1992–28 Jun 1992
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Mar 1995–14 May 1995
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 09 Jun 1995–16 Jul 1995
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 01 Sep 1995–15 Oct 1995
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 04 Nov 1995–01 Jan 1996
Lloyd Rees Drawings (1995-96), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 24 Jan 1996–11 Mar 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Painting with Pencil - Lloyd Rees: Sydney Drawings 1930-36, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 Dec 2015–10 Apr 2016
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Helen Campbell, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Out of Sydney: city and hinterlands', pp 185-186, Sydney, 2000, 196 (colour illus.), 301.
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Renée Free, Lloyd Rees: an artist remembers, ‘The drawing period, 1930-36’, pp 27-30, Sydney, 1987, 28 (colour illus.), 29, 152. plate no. 6
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Janet Hawley, Good weekend, 'Portrait of the artist as mentor', Broadway, 04 Mar 1995, 33 (colour illus.).
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian collection: works on paper', pp 182-197, Sydney, 1999, 194 (colour illus.).
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Lou Klepac, Australian painters of the twentieth century, 'Lloyd Rees', pp 64-75, Sydney, 2000, 66 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, 'The art of the Australian watercolour', Heidelberg, Apr 1989, 21 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, 'The thirties', pp 43-64, Sydney, 1995, front cover (colour illus., detail), 6 (colour illus.), 48, 49 (illus.), back cover (colour illus., detail). cat.no. 40
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 49 (colour illus.), 118-119. cat.no. 38
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Twentieth century Australian watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1989. cat.no. 64
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Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 'When collectors looked, not listened', Sydney, 15 Oct 1985, (illus.). page number unknown
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Joanna Mendelssohn, The Bulletin with Newsweek, 'Draughtsman's contract', Sydney, 09 May 1995, 84 (colour illus.).
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Barry Pearce and Haruo Arikawa, Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 127 (colour illus.). cat.no. 76
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