Title
Mountain steeps
1926
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Blue Mountain Steepes
- Date
- 1926
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.5 x 122.0 cm stretcher; 109.2 x 139.6 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, red oil "HOWARD ASHTON/ 1926".
- Credit
- Gift of R.R. Dangar 1927
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 864
- Copyright
- © Estate of Howard Ashton
- Artist information
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Howard Ashton
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1925), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 11 Sep 1925–03 Oct 1925
Exhibition of pictures from Southern States, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 22 Jul 1930–16 Aug 1930
150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
Picturing the Great Divide: visions from Australia’s Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, 17 Nov 2012–03 Feb 2013
Fieldwork, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, 17 Jul 2020–20 Sep 2020
Fieldwork, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, 28 Nov 2020–07 Feb 2021
Fieldwork, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, 12 Mar 2021–09 May 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Herbert Badham, A gallery of Australian art, 'Introduction', pg. v-vii., Sydney, 1954, xi, (illus.). plate no. 30
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Paula Dredge, Margaret Sawicki, Steven Miller and Lindsay Parker, S.A. Parker Framing Works, 'Works in the collection with known Parker frames', pg. 27-68, Sydney, 2004, 33 (illus.).
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. not paginated, cat.no. 143 [Gallery No.2]
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Queensland Art Fund, Exhibition of pictures from Southern States, Brisbane, 1930. cat.no. 4; loaned by Trustees New South Wales Art Gallery
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Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 15. cat.no. 11
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 18], Sydney, Dec 1926, frontispiece (colour illus.). titled 'Blue Moutain Steepes'; the caption for this reproduction indicates that the work was shown in the annual exhibition of the Society of Artists in 1926, however, the work is not listed in that catalogue
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Gavin Wilson, Picturing the Great Divide: visions from Australia's Blue Mountains, Katoomba, 2012, 60, 62 (colour illus.), 113.
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