Title
The water cart
(circa 1921)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1921)
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, black ink with very pale plate tone on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 9/35
- Dimensions
- 5.7 x 13.3 cm platemark; 13.5 x 20.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Percy Leason".
Signed within plate to print l.l., "Leason". Not dated.- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Arthur Boyd Acquisition Fund 1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 46.1998
- Copyright
- © Estate of Percy Leason
- Artist information
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Percy Leason
Works in the collection
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About
Percy Leason was born at Kaniva, Victoria and studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne 1907-10 and with Max Meldrum in 1927. At the age of 17 he was apprenticed to commercial lithographers Sands and McDougall. Encouraged by Sydney Ure Smith, he moved from Melbourne to Sydney in 1917 to work for the advertising firm Smith and Julius in 1917, the same year as Lloyd Rees, both on the strength of their black and white drawings. He was political cartoonist for the 'Bulletin' from 1919 to 1924, and then became the most highly paid cartoonist in Australia when he began working for Melbourne Punch. He was famous for his 'Wiregrass' cartoons in 'Table Talk' (1924-37) and was a founding member of the Australian Painter-Etchers Society; 'The water cart' was included in their first exhibition. Leason made very few etchings, most of which are images of rural life. The cancelled copper plate for The water cart is in the Gallery's collection. Leason emigrated to the United States in 1938.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, 'Australian Prints from the Collection 139 of the best', pg. 26-27, Heidelberg, Nov 1998, 27.
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 50 (illus.). cat.no. 38
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 44 (colour illus.). cat.no. 61
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Sydney Ure Smith, Bertram Stevens and Charles Lloyd Jones (Editors), Art in Australia [series 1, no. 9], Sydney, Sep 1921. plate no. 56
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