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Title
Spring
1945
Artist
Ruskin Spear
England
30 Jun 1911 - 17 Jan 1990
Details
Date
1945
Materials used
oil on wood
Dimensions
56.6 x 41.5 cm board; 71.0 x 56.0 x 7.0 cm frame
Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1946
Location
Not on display
Accession number
7839
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Ruskin Spear
Spring
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Artists of fame and of promise, 1946, The Leicester Galleries, London, Jul 1946–Aug 1946
Unknown, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 05 Apr 1951–05 Oct 1951
Provenance
The Leicester Galleries, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Leicester Galleries 1946
Referenced in 3 publications
Bibliography
Ernest Brown and Phillips Ltd, London, Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture by artists of fame and of promise, London, 1946. cat.no. 70
Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 182 (illus.).
Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 160. cat.no. 2026