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Details
- Date
- 1889
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 x 127.6 cm stretcher; 127.4 x 162.5 x 7.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., brown oil "FRANK P MAHONY/ 1889".
- Credit
- Purchased 1889
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 6104
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frank Mahony
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About
Frank Mahony was born in Melbourne and studied in Sydney at the NSW Academy of Art. He is best known as a painter of Australian genre subjects, and an illustrator for 'The picturesque atlas of Australasia' and 'The Bulletin'. He also illustrated books by Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson.
The painting 'Rounding up a straggler' is in the Gallery's collection, purchased in the year it was painted. An engraving of it appears in 'The picturesque atlas of Australasia' (1888) as 'Rounding up a straggler on a cattle-run', pg. 353. On the verso of the drawing are pencil studies of a horse and a couple.
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 8 exhibitions
Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1889), Society Rooms, Union Chambers, Sydney, 1889 -
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
British Empire Exhibition (1924), Empire Stadium, Wembley, 23 Apr 1924–Oct 1925
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Apr 2005–24 Jul 2005
A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 Mar 2021–11 Jul 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 28 publications
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Julian Ashton., Daily telegraph, ‘National Art Gallery: The Australian Court’, Sydney, 27 Sep 1905, unknown.
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Julian Ashton, Now came still evening on, Sydney, 1941, 98.
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Leigh Astbury, City bushmen: the Heidelberg school and the rural mythology, Melbourne, 1985, 120 (illus.), 128. plate no. 19
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Australian Exhibition Commission, Catalogue: British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) 1924, 1924, 95. no catalogue numbers; Lent by the Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Nicolas Brasch, Horses in Australia: an illustrated history, 'The breed for every need', pg. 204-225, Sydney, 2014, 206-207 (colour illus.).
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George Galway, Fifty years of Australian art 1879-1929, New South Wales, 1929, 51.
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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, 95 (colour illus.).
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Henry Lawson, Favourite poems, Sydney, 1992, 9 (illus.).
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 750 [Gallery No. 7]
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Evan McHugh, The stockmen: the making of an Australian legend, 'The first cattle king', pg. 25-36, Melbourne, 2013, 24 (colour illus.), 25 (colour illus.), 27.
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Australian artists: Some have real artistic merit and the collection is credible', Chicago Daily Tribune, 'Pictures, pg. 9, Chicago, 08 Jun 1893, 9.
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Hal Missingham, A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Sydney, 1953. cat.no. 54
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William Moore, The story of Australian art from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today (Vol. 1), 'National life', pg. 122-152, Sydney, 1934, 147 (illus.).
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1893, Sydney, 1893, 107. cat.no. 368; Loan collection to Commissioners of the Chicago Exposition
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1888, Sydney, 1888. cat.no. 162; titled 'Rounding Up a Straggler'
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1899, Sydney, 1899. cat.no. 254; Oil Paintings-Australian
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1891, Sydney, 1891, 66. cat.no. 251
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Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Art Society of New South Wales Spring Exhibition Catalogue (1889), Sydney, 1889, 9, 13 (illus.). cat.no. 25; price £84.0.0
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Bernard Smith, 100 years of Australian painting, 'Foreword', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 1948, 5. cat.no. 10
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Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 136.
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Terry Smith, Transformations in Australian art: The nineteenth century - landscape, colony and nation [Volume One], 'The divided meaning of 'Shearing the Rams': artists and nationalism, 1888-1895', pg. 66-106, St Leonards, 2002, 79, 96, 106.
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Virginia Spate, Tom Roberts, Melbourne, 1978, 86.
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Daniel Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Tom Roberts', pg. 466-487, Sydney, Jul 1969, 472.
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Vaurian, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'The Art Gallery', pg. 5, Sydney, 13 Dec 1890, 5. see copy in Curator's Worksheet
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, 'The Art Society's Exhibition', pg. 4, Sydney, 04 Oct 1889, 4. see copy in Curator's worksheet
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney morning herald, 'Death of Frank Mahony', pg. 8, Sydney, 15 Aug 1916, 8.
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Author Unknown, Tales of Old Australia Australian Classic Literature, New South Wales, cover ( illus.).
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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 140, Sydney, 1893, 435. cat.no. 6; section 1178
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