Title
Dance of the football field
1947
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1947
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 61.0 cm board; 62.5 x 73.0 x 3.7 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "Raokin.47.".
- Credit
- Purchased 1953
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8722
- Copyright
- © Estate of HF Weaver Hawkins
- Artist information
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Weaver Hawkins
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About
'Dance of the football field' depicts two Sydney-based rugby league teams during a 1947 match in which the Balmain team (black and yellow) defeated the Manly team (maroon and white) at Brookvale Oval, home to the Manly football club. It is likely that Weaver Hawkins and his sons were in the crowd, as Hawkins lived in Mona Vale, north of Manly, at the time he created this painting.
The artist has signed the painting 'Raokin', an alias which he began to use from 1927, stemming from unwanted publicity as an artist living with severe injuries from World War I.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Third Annual Australian Arts and crafts exhibition (1964), Glenbrook School of Arts, Glenbrook, 17 Apr 1964–18 Apr 1964
Project 11 - Weaver Hawkins (1976), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Feb 1976–14 Mar 1976
Weaver Hawkins retrospective, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 25 Oct 1994–20 Dec 1994
Weaver Hawkins retrospective, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 02 Jun 1995–16 Jul 1995
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Bonhams Australia (Compilator), Important Australian art, 'Important Australian art: lots 1-41', pg. 6-74, Sydney, Aug 2014, 14. Related work: 'Football' 1952 by Weaver Hawkins
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Glenbrook School of Arts, Third Annual Australian Arts and crafts exhibition (1964), Blue Mountains, 1964. no catalogue number
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S.H. Ervin Gallery, Weaver Hawkins 1893-1977, Sydney, 1995. cat.no. 31; Collection AGNSW
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Daniel Thomas, Project 11: Weaver Hawkins, 'Weaver Hawkins', Sydney, 1976, not paginated. cat.no. 24
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