Collection
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Title
Aboriginal family
circa 1956
Details
Date
circa 1956
Materials used
black conté, watercolour, white highlights on green paper
Dimensions
40.7 x 30.9 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed l.r., pen and red ink "Russell Drysdale". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1956
Location
Not on display
Accession number
9200
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Russell Drysdale
Aboriginal family
Place
Where the work was made
Australia
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Drawings and Prints (1956), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 01 May 1956–25 May 1956
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
- Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995
- Griffith Regional Art Gallery 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995
- Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
"When I was young...": artists' impressions of childhood, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, 09 Nov 2002–02 Feb 2003
Referenced in 3 publications
Bibliography
Drawings and Prints, Sydney, 1956. cat.no. 9
Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 24
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 69 (illus.). cat.no. 60