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Title

The beach

1913

Artist

Harley Griffiths Senior

Australia

03 Jun 1878 – 21 Dec 1951

  • Details

    Date
    1913
    Media category
    Painting
    Materials used
    oil on canvas on paperboard
    Dimensions
    35.0 x 50.5 cm board; 44.8 x 80.3 x 4.2 cm frame
    Signature & date

    Signed and dated l.r. corner, grey oil "H Griffiths 1913".

    Credit
    Gift of Howard Hinton 1928
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    573
    Copyright

    Reproduction requests

    Artist information
    Harley Griffiths Senior

    Works in the collection

    2

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  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 4 exhibitions

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 4 publications

    • Don Featherstone (Director) and David Woodgate (Producer), The beach, Australia, 2000, 00:19.00 for 2 seconds (colour, detail). A shift from digger icon to lifesaver. Fashioning the beach through European eyes.

    • Lionel Lindsay, Howard Hinton memorial exhibition, 'Howard Hinton, OBE', pg. 2-3, Sydney, 1948, 15. cat.no. 93

    • Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. not paginated, cat.no. 134 [Gallery No. 2]

    • Linda Slutzkin, On the beach, Sydney, 1982, 12 (illus.). cat.no. 7

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