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Details
- Other Titles
- Syrian goat and rhododendrons
The black goat - Date
- (circa 1933)
- Media category
- Materials used
- wood engraving, printed in black ink on ivory mulberry paper
- Edition
- From edition of 100
- Dimensions
- 16.9 x 15.2 cm blockmark; 22.1 x 19.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed within block to print l.r., "LIONEL LINDSAY".
Signed l.l., pencil "Lionel Lindsay". Not dated.- Credit
- Purchased 1935
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 6341
- Copyright
- © Estate of Lionel Lindsay
- Artist information
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Lionel Lindsay
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About
Lionel Lindsay produced the most impressive and consistent oeuvre of wood engravings in Australia, 'Goat and rhododendron' being one of the boldest and most popular. The Gallery has a significant collection of Lindsay's graphic work, including over 60 wood engravings and 100 etchings.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
'My method is very simple. From a careful pencil study I place my principal object; carefully drawing a precise outline. I blacken the intervening space and start by establishing my largest lights; finding direction, modelling and strength of line on the block. I prove as I go, building up my design from what elements I have already considered necessary, bit by bit. I gamble with the ultimate result, but my chief care is to establish a true graver cut, keep its drawing quality and to preserve the intervening black. I keep thus to a classic ideal' (J S Macdonald, 'The woodcuts of Lionel Lindsay', The print collectors quarterly, vol.21, no.2 (April 1934), pg.180).
This print was exhibited in April 1934 at P & D Colnaghi and Co, London as 'Syrian goat and Rhododendrons' ('Wood-engravings by Lionel Lindsay', cat.no. 52).
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 05 Sep 1992–05 Oct 1992
- Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo 18 Dec 1992–24 Jan 1993
- Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul 01 May 1993–30 May 1993
- Grafton Regional Gallery, 11 Jun 1993–01 Aug 1993
The Legendary Lindsays:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 06 Jan 1995–26 Feb 1995
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat 10 Mar 1995–30 Apr 1995
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 9 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 10, 20 (colour illus.). Collection of Mr Peter Lindsay, Sydney.
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Kirsty Grant and Jason Smith, In relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, Melbourne, 1997, 26, 27 (colour illus.). Collection of National Gallery of Victoria
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Works on Paper', pg. 182-197, Sydney, 1999, 194 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Animals on paper - from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Sydney, 1992, (illus.). cat.no. 32
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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, 40 (illus.). cat.no. 25
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 511; titled 'The black goat'.
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 71 (illus.). cat.no. 105
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Anne Ryan, Look, 'When prints ruled', pg. 25-27, Sydney, May 2007, 25 (illus.).
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