Title
Little man
1955-1956
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1955-1956
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching, aquatint, engraving, drypoint, printed in black ink on Kent paper
- Edition
- 12/16
- Dimensions
- 23.2 x 12.8 cm platemark; 26.9 x 16.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Fred Williams". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Professor Douglas Joseph 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 273.1990
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Artist information
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Fred Williams
Works in the collection
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About
Williams began making etchings in 1954, while a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Inspired to some degree by Sickert and Daumier, his subjects during this period, were often taken from drawings made on the spot of street-life and performers in music halls.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Aug 2001–25 Nov 2001
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints, Sydney, 2001, 15 (illus.), 21 (illus.). cat.no. 21
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