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Title
Gums in sunlight
1923
Artist
Hans Heysen
Germany, Australia, France
08 Oct 1877 - 02 Jul 1968
Details
Date
1923
Materials used
pencil, watercolour
Dimensions
32.5 x 40.7 cm sheet; 58.0 x 65.3 x 4.3 cm frame
Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, "HANS HEYSEN 1923".
Credit
Bequest of Dr and Mrs Sinclair Gillies 1952
Location
Not on display
Accession number
8966
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Hans Heysen
Gums in sunlight
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Exhibition of Australian art (1923), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, Jun 1923 -
Exhibition of Australian Art (1923), Burlington House, 06 Oct 1923–03 Nov 1923
Australian arcady: landscape paintings from the collection of the the Art Galery of New South Wales:
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst Regional Council, Bathurst 21 Apr 1983–22 May 1983
- Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains 27 May 1983–19 Jun 1983
- Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia 25 Jun 1983–22 Jul 1983
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 26 Aug 1983–30 Sep 1983
Hans Heysen watercolours and drawings (1988), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 23 Sep 1988–23 Oct 1988
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent:
- National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan 28 Apr 1992–28 Jun 1992
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat 1996–1996
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 1996–1996
Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 08 Mar 2019–28 Jul 2019
Referenced in 5 publications
Bibliography
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 43 (colour illus.), 118. cat.no. 32
Connell Nisbet, Look, 'From walls to screens: digitising the Gallery's collection', pg.12-16, Sydney, Oct 2002, 14 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce and Haruo Arikawa, Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 86 (colour illus.). cat.no. 41
Ursula Prunster, Australian arcady: Landscape paintings from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection, Sydney, 1983. cat.no. 23 Note no pagination, text reference only.
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 5], Sydney, Aug 1923, 5 (colour illus.).