Title
From a window in Pimlico (Battersea Power Station)
1940
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1940
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour, gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 48.9 x 40.7 cm image; 73.6 x 65.7 x 3.8 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., brown watercolour "PURVES SMITH 1940".
- Credit
- Gift of Lady Drysdale 1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 152.1986
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Peter Purves Smith
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
Peter Purves Smith, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 08 Mar 2001–15 Apr 2001
Peter Purves Smith, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 03 Sep 2001–15 Oct 2001
Wastelands: A poetic legacy, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Aug 2005–09 Oct 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Mary Eagle, Peter Purves Smith: a painter in peace and war, Sydney, 2001, 123 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, 'Introduction: Painting in watercolour', pg. 8-16, Sydney, 1995, 13, 61 (colour illus.), 120. cat.no. 50
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