Title
Nursemaids in the Luxembourg Gardens
(circa 1923)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Nursemaids in the Luxemburg Gardens
- Date
- (circa 1923)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 48.9 x 59.0 cm board; 63.7 x 74.4 x 4.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, grey oil "K L O'Connor". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1966
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- OA7.1966
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission
- Artist information
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Kathleen O'Connor
Works in the collection
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About
Kathleen O’Connor was a significant expatriate artist who spent almost 50 years living abroad, mostly in Paris, before returning to Australia. She produced a series of paintings in the Luxembourg Gardens, where she spent much time observing people and capturing what she saw in the form
of painted ‘sketches’.'Nursemaids in the Luxembourg Gardens' emanates from this series. Painted with rapid and fluid brushstrokes on paperboard, it provides the viewer with an intimate glimpse of two nursemaids sitting on a park bench caring
for small children. It evokes a sense of reverie through the muted colours and an emotional distance with the subjects viewed from behind. -
Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Kathleen O'Connor: hommage exhibition, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 22 Feb 1967–19 Mar 1967
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 1967–07 May 1967
Project 21 - Womens images of women (1977), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1977–13 Nov 1977
Her story: images of domestic labour in Australian art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 26 Sep 1991–20 Oct 1991
Leaping boundaries: a century of New Zealand artists in Australia, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 09 Jun 2001–17 Jul 2001
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Jude Adams, Barbara Hall and Jennifer Barber, Project 21: Women's images of women, Sydney, 1977. cat.no. 28; Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1966 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1966, 14.
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Janda Gooding, Chasing Shadows The Art of Kathlenn O'Connor, 'An artist in the Luxembourg Gardens', pg. 19-35, Sydney, 1996, 19-35. NOTE: General reference
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Julie Lewis and P. AE. Hutchings, Kathleen O'Connor: artist in exile, 'The Luxembourgh Gardens Pictures', pg. 211-216, Perth, 1987, 245 (colour illus.), 284 (illus.). NOTE: Appendices A is a list of works included in the 1967 "Kathleen O'Connor: Hommage exhibition' held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. cat.no. 72.
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