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Details
- Other Title
- Back Street Scene
- Date
- 1944
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 57.5 x 68.3 cm board; 79.2 x 89.7 x 6.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, pale brown oil "Herbert McClintock/ 1944".
- Credit
- Purchased 1947
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 7920
- Copyright
- © Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Sir John Sulman Prize
- - 1944
- Artist information
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Herbert McClintock
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About
This work was a finalist in the 1944 Sulman Prize and was acquired by the Gallery in 1947.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, 02 Apr 1977–20 Apr 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Sale Regional Art Gallery, Australia, 29 Apr 1977–20 May 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 27 May 1977–17 Jun 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, 24 Jun 1977–15 Jul 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Shepparton Art Museum, Australia, 22 Jul 1977–08 Aug 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, 12 Aug 1977–02 Sep 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 16 Sep 1977–07 Oct 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura, 14 Oct 1977–04 Nov 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Benalla Art Gallery, Australia, 11 Nov 1977–02 Dec 1977
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, , 09 Dec 1977–20 Jan 1978
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Ararat Gallery, Ararat, 27 Jan 1978–17 Feb 1978
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 24 Feb 1978–17 Mar 1978
1940-1965: The heroic years of Australian painting, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 24 Mar 1978–14 Apr 1978
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Sep 1984–28 Oct 1984
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 15 Nov 1984–06 Jan 1985
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 24 Jan 1985–03 Mar 1985
Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 26 Mar 1985–28 Apr 1985
Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 15 Apr 2000–23 Jul 2000
Artists as Social Commentators and Activists 1946-2006, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 06 Sep 2007–28 Oct 2007
Artists as Social Commentators and Activists 1946-2006, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, 08 Feb 2008–30 Mar 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Peter Emmett, Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour, 'Suburb', pg. 71-72, Glebe, 2000, 111, 112 (colour illus.).
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Manly Art Gallery and Museum (Editor), Artists as social commentators and activists, Sydney, 2007, 30, 11 (colour illus.).
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Charles Merewether, Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams 1931-1948, Sydney, 1984, 100, 156 (illus.). cat.no. 84
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Hal Missingham, A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Sydney, 1953. cat.no. 140
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Bernard Smith, 100 years of Australian painting, 'Foreword', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 1948, 11. cat.no. 61
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Bernard William Smith, Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788, 'Surrealism and the neo-surrealist developments', pg. 214-238, South Melbourne, 1979, 235 (illus.). plate no. 88
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