-
Details
- Other Titles
- Portrait mask of Mrs Turner
Mask
Mask in bronze - Date
- 1926
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze, marble
- Dimensions
-
33.0 x 17.4 x 14.0 cm overall
:
a - head, 23 x 17.3 x 14 cm
b - base, 10.3 x 9.1 x 8.9 cm
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. cheek, incised "... G.RAYNER.HOFF". Dated l.l. chin, incised "1926".
- Credit
- Purchased 1935
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 6334.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
-
Rayner Hoff
Works in the collection
- Share
-
Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1928), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 08 Sep 1928–05 Oct 1928
150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938
Sculpture of Rayner Hoff: Memorial Exhibition, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 19 May 1938–04 Jun 1938
Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 01 Oct 1941–26 Oct 1941
Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17 Nov 1941–31 Dec 1941
Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ottawa, 15 Jan 1942–15 Feb 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Yale University Art Gallery, United States of America, 02 Mar 1942–23 Mar 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 03 Apr 1942–15 May 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, 01 Jun 1942–27 Jun 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 10 Jul 1942–27 Aug 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Toledo Museum of Art, United States of America, 06 Sep 1942–27 Sep 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, 05 Oct 1942–02 Nov 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Cleveland Museum of Art, United States of America, 09 Nov 1942–07 Dec 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Detroit Institiute of Arts, Detroit, 01 Jan 1943–29 Jan 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 05 Feb 1943–28 Feb 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, 07 Mar 1943–28 Mar 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, 08 Apr 1943–05 May 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Fort Wayne Art School and Museum, Fort Wayne, 12 May 1943–31 May 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 07 Sep 1943–08 Oct 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, 20 Oct 1943–17 Nov 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Dallas, 28 Nov 1943–26 Dec 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, Abilene, 10 Jan 1944–07 Feb 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Heard Museum, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, Phoenix, 21 Feb 1944–20 Mar 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 04 Apr 1944–07 May 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rosicrucian Egyptian Oriental Museum, San Jose, 19 May 1944–16 Jun 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Hamline University, St Paul, 01 Dec 1944–17 Dec 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Society Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial, Omaha, 06 Jan 1945–27 Jan 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, United States of America, 06 Feb 1945–27 Feb 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Quincy Art Club, Quincy, 09 Mar 1945–30 Mar 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 13 Apr 1945–04 May 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 14 May 1945–04 Jun 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, North Texas State Teachers' College, Denton, 14 Jun 1945–05 Jul 1945
'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Nov 1999–16 Jan 2000
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
-
Deborah Edwards, 'This vital flesh': the sculpture of Rayner Hoff and his school, 'Australia, the new Greece: the body as nation', pg. 30-51, Sydney, 1999, 40 (illus.), 102.
-
National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 150 years of Australian art: 150th anniversary celebrations January 27 to April 25, 1938, Sydney, 1938, n. pag. cat. no 826, titled 'Mask'
-
Society of Artists, Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1928), 'Catalogue of exhibits', Sydney, 1928, n. pag. poss. cat. no 177. titled 'Portrait Mask'
-
Beatrice Tildesley, Society of Artists' Exhibition [Press Review], 'Society of Artists' Exhibition', pg. 10-11, Sydney, 12 Sep 1928, 10. poss. exhib. as 'cast of a portrait mask', [Medium Description not specified]
-
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), The Home : an Australian quarterly, 'Sydney S'amuse', pg. 8, 14., Sydney, 1928, 8. The periodical "Home" in publishing a social review of the private viewing of the 1928 Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition. "Mrs. Mary Jo. Turner was another who invited comparison with the artist's conception of her. Rayner Hoff's 'Portrait Mask of Mrs. Turner' was a very lovely piece of sculpture."
-
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 60], Sydney, Aug 1935, 44 (illus.). titled 'Mask in bronze'
-
Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Art of Australia 1788-1941, New York, 1941, 49. cat. no 133, titled 'Mask'
-
Kenneth Wilkinson (Editor), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 70], Sydney, Mar 1938, 68 (illus.). titled 'Mask in bronze'
-
Author Unknown, Society of Artists. Annual Exhibition. [Press Review], 'SCULPTURE', Sydney, 07 Sep 1928, 17. poss. exhib. as 'a portrait mask', [Medium Description not specified]
-