Title
recto: Figure studies verso: Study of a head (upside down)
1960
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1960
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen, blue, black and brown ink and wash on lined exercise book page
- Dimensions
- 23.9 x 24.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, blue ink "Dadswell 60".
- Credit
- Gift of John Keightley 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 174.2008
- Copyright
- © Estate of Lyndon Dadswell
- Artist information
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Lyndon Dadswell
Works in the collection
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About
One of the most important post war Australian sculptors and teachers, Dadswell studied with Julian Ashton 1923-25 and at ESTC under Rayner Hoff 1926-29. Commissioned by the National War Memorial Committee of Victoria to design and execute the inner frieze of Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance 1929, he continued to work under Paul Montford until 1932. He taught sculpture at ESTC for four decades from 1937 and is credited with introducing modernist sculpture to Australia.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Sydney Art of the 1960s, Garry Anderson Gallery, Darlinghurst, 29 Jan 1985–23 Feb 1985
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney Art of the 1960s, Sydney, 1985. cat.no. 12
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