Title
(Four compositional studies of rock formations), from Studies for 'The nerve garden'
1946
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1946
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and black ink, grey watercolour, opaque white
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 12.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Frank O'Keefe 1993
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 134.1993
- Copyright
- © Gleeson/O'Keefe Foundation
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
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About
'The nerve garden didn't decay. I wanted the rock to have a kind of movement you don't normally have in rock forms - animal-like movement ... the animation is taken from the figures and put into the rocks ...'
As a child Glesson spent many hours by coastal rock pools at Terrigal, NSW, where rock formations and the sea fascinated him. They became a recurring motif in his paintings from his earliest work to the present.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 41.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Sydney, 2003, 40 (colour illus.). cat.no. 7c
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