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Title
The bridge
1958
Details
Date
1958
Materials used
oil on hardboard
Dimensions
71.1 x 91.5 cm board; 82.6 x 103.0 x 3.7 cm frame
Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "R. Wakelin/ 58".
Credit
Purchased 1958
Location
Not on display
Accession number
9669


Place
Where the work was made
Sydney
Shown in 11 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Society of Artists Spring Exhibition (1958), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 14 Aug 1958–29 Aug 1958
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1958, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Feb 1959–08 Mar 1959
Roland Wakelin retrospective (1967):
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 08 Apr 1967–30 Apr 1967
- Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle 10 May 1967–13 May 1967
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
Observing Sydney - Views of and from Observatory Hill, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 07 May 1993–13 Jun 1993
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Sydney studios, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 14 Aug 2004–26 Sep 2004
Harbourlife: Sydney Harbour from the 1940s to recent times:
- Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly 30 Nov 2007–13 Jan 2008
- Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney 23 Jan 2008–08 Mar 2008
Henri Mallard: Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 10 Feb 2011–26 Mar 2011
Australian Modernists: Their responses to the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 10 Feb 2011–25 Mar 2011
An expanded vision: Mary Turner collection, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 27 Aug 2011–30 Oct 2011
Referenced in 7 publications
Bibliography
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1958 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1958, 16. cat.no. 30
Douglas Dundas, Roland Wakelin retrospective, 'Introduction', pg. 3-6, Sydney, 1967, 19. cat.no. 81
Heather Johnson, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Roy de Maistre / Roland Wakelin', pg. 48-59, Sydney, 2002, 58, 59 (colour illus.), 146, 147.
The Artist & the City, Sydney, 1983, 13, 15 (illus.). cat.no. 26
An expanded view: the Mary Turner Collection at Orange Regional Gallery, 'List of works', pg. 117-124, Orange, 2011, 123.
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Observing Sydney: views of and from Observatory Hill, Sydney, 1993, 8 (colour illus.).
Gavin Wilson, Harbourlife, 'harbourlife', pg. 7-32, Sydney, 2007, 56, 8, 12 (colour illus.).