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Details
- Date
- (1930)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand-coloured on thin ivory mulberry paper
- Edition
- number 11 from an unknown edition
- Dimensions
- 17.5 x 22.8 cm blockmark; 20.4 x 26.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed with initials in block to print l.l., white reversed out of black ink "TP". Signed l.r., pencil "Thea Proctor". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- DA2.1965
- Copyright
- © Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Artist information
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Thea Proctor
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About
Encouraged by the example of Margaret Preston (who gave her the wood to work with) Thea Proctor made her first woodcuts in 1925, later stating that they were made mainly for children’s nurseries. This medium suited her interest in
colour and design.After her return from London in 1921, Proctor epitomised ‘the modern’ in 1920s Sydney. Her work effortlessly spanned the worlds of art exhibitions, design and décor, and she was involved in the establishment of the Contemporary Group in Sydney, which encouraged young avant-garde artists.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999
Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Mar 2010–11 Jul 2010
Professor Sadler, Japan and Australian modernism, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, 03 Apr 2011–24 Jul 2011
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Bibliography
Referenced in 14 publications
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Janine Burke, Australian women artists 1840-1940, Collingwood, 1980, 133 (illus.), 177. plate no. 58; Collection of National Gallery of Victoria
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Helen Campbell, Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, 'Introduction', pg. 2, Sydney, 2010, 3 (colour illus.).
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Nicholas Draffin, Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 12, 40 (colour illus.). dated circa 1930
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Sarah Engledow', The world of Thea Proctor, 'The world of Thea Proctor', pg. 16-84, Canberra, 2005, 45, 49-50, 125 (colour illus.). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression
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Janda Gooding, Thea Proctor, Perth, 1982, 13. NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression
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Kirsty Grant and Jason Smith, In relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, Melbourne, 1997, 32 (colour illus.). Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 60 (colour illus.). cat.no. 48
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Josef Lebovic, Australian women printmakers, 'Foreword', pg. 2, Sydney, 1988, 12. cat.no. 97a; dated 1930; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
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Josef Lebovic, Masterpieces of Australian printmaking, Sydney, 1987, 102, 103. NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression
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Jan Minchin, The prints: Thea Proctor, 'Thea Proctor: a biography', pg. 6-13, Sydney, 1980, 72, 73 (colour illus.). cat.no. 25; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression
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Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Women artists and the decorative arts 1880-1935: the gender of ornament, 'Owning femininity: Thea Proctor and the Australian Avant-garde', pg. 73-95, Aldershot, 2002, 78, 79.
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Louise Tegart (Editor), Slow burn: A century of Australian women artists from a private collection, Sydney, 2010, 20, 22 (colour illus.). NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression
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Maria (Connie) Tornatore-Loong, Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler & modernism, 1920-30s, 'The remarkable Professor Sadler: Japan, Sydney and Australian modernism', pg. 7-49, Sydney, 2011, 28, 34 (colour illus.), 137. cat.no. 37
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 119
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