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Details
- Other Title
- The Bridge Builders
- Date
- (circa 1927)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 31.7 x 54.0 cm board; 46.7 x 68.8 x 4.3 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, brown oil "Percy LiNdsay". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1927
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 871
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Percy Lindsay
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Art of Australia 1788-1941:
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 01 Oct 1941–26 Oct 1941
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17 Nov 1941–31 Dec 1941
- Yale University Art Gallery, United States of America 02 Mar 1942–23 Mar 1942
- Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 03 Apr 1942–15 May 1942
- Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington 01 Jun 1942–27 Jun 1942
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 10 Jul 1942–27 Aug 1942
- Toledo Museum of Art, United States of America 06 Sep 1942–27 Sep 1942
- Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester 05 Oct 1942–02 Nov 1942
- Cleveland Museum of Art, United States of America 09 Nov 1942–07 Dec 1942
- Detroit Institiute of Arts, Detroit 01 Jan 1943–29 Jan 1943
- Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indianapolis 08 Apr 1943–05 May 1943
- Fort Wayne Art School and Museum, Fort Wayne 12 May 1943–31 May 1943
- Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City 07 Sep 1943–08 Oct 1943
- Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa 20 Oct 1943–17 Nov 1943
- Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Dallas 28 Nov 1943–26 Dec 1943
- Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, Abilene 10 Jan 1944–07 Feb 1944
- Heard Museum, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, Phoenix 21 Feb 1944–20 Mar 1944
- San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco 04 Apr 1944–07 May 1944
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Oriental Museum, San Jose 19 May 1944–16 Jun 1944
- Hamline University, St Paul 01 Dec 1944–17 Dec 1944
- Society Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial, Omaha 06 Jan 1945–27 Jan 1945
- Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, United States of America 06 Feb 1945–27 Feb 1945
- Quincy Art Club, Quincy 09 Mar 1945–30 Mar 1945
- Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City 13 Apr 1945–04 May 1945
- University of Oklahoma, Norman 14 May 1945–04 Jun 1945
- North Texas State Teachers' College, Denton 14 Jun 1945–05 Jul 1945
Sydney Harbour: an exhibition to mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of Australia (1963), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Oct 1963–19 Nov 1963
Sydney Harbour 1794-1979, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 03 Aug 1979–26 Aug 1979
The Artist and the City:
- Art Museum Armidale, Armidale 01 Nov 1983–04 Nov 1983
- Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth 08 Nov 1983–11 Nov 1983
- Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly 15 Nov 1983–20 Nov 1983
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 26 Nov 1983–18 Dec 1983
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 9 publications
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Brian Ladd and Alan Krell, The Artist & the City, Sydney, 1983, 7. cat.no. 8
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 75
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Ursula Prunster, The legendary Lindsays, Sydney, 1995, 107 (colour illus.).
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Roseville Community Association Inc, William Henry's 40 acres & the people who lived there: then and now, 'A famous son', pg. 46, Sydney, 2000, 46, back cover (colour illus.).
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Daniel Thomas., Sydney Harbour, ‘Introduction', Sydney, 1963. cat.no. 36
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Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Art of Australia 1788-1941, New York, 1941, 35. cat.no. 47; titled 'The Bridge Builders'.
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 16], Sydney, Jun 1926, (colour illus.).
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 87
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, 'At Mr. Percy Lindsay's exhibition.', pg. 12, Sydney, 05 Jul 1927, 12 (illus.), 14.
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