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
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
Macquarie Galleries, Drawings and Prints, Sydney, 1956. cat.no. 9