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Details
- Other Title
- E.L. Montefiore 1898, 2nd President of Trustees 1889-92
- Date
- 1898
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- marble
- Dimensions
- 61.9 x 51.3 x 30.0 cm weight - 140kg
- Signature & date
Signed and dated verso, incised "THEO. COWAN SCULP 1898".
- Credit
- Purchased 1899
- Location
- Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 3267
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Theo Cowan
Works in the collection
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About
Theo Cowan modelled this commemorative portrait of one of the founding trustees of the National Gallery of New South Wales from photographs and sent the work to Italy for carving.
Deborah Edwards, 'Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2003
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1987
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Oct 2019–08 Mar 2020
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 77. cat.no. 6
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Deborah Edwards., Australian sculpture 1890-1919, 'Australian sculpture 1890-1919', Sydney, 1987, (illus.). no catalogue numbers, not paginated
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Peter Haynes (Compilator), Famous people: a selective who's who from works in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981, 10 (illus.).
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Roslyn Russell, National Library of Australia news, 'Eliezer Montefiore from Barbados to Sydney', pg. 11-14, Canberra, Dec 2008, 12, 14 (colour illus.). NOTE: Photo of AGNSW exterior on page 14.
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