Title
Studies of old men (recto); (studies of old men) (verso)
1943-1945
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1943-1945
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil
- Dimensions
- 10.4 x 12.7 cm folded sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1958
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9801
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Eric Wilson
Works in the collection
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About
Eric Wilson was in London on the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship when the outbreak of the Second World War forced his return to Australia. His studies in Europe led his work in two directions - cubist-inspired abstract still lifes and portraits and landscapes based on drawings made in Europe.
Wilson was a conscientious objector during the war and worked as a ward attendant at Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney between 1942 and 1944. He made a number of emotionally expressive studies of the residents in Wards 27 and 28, which housed approximately ninety patients each, most suffering either advanced senility or terminal illness. The drawings led to a painting in the Gallery's collection, 'The inmates' 1944.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2001
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1958, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Feb 1959–08 Mar 1959
Eric Wilson, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 29 Jul 1983–28 Aug 1983
Eric Wilson, Banyule Gallery, , 16 Sep 1983–16 Oct 1983
Eric Wilson, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 04 Nov 1983–04 Dec 1983
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Andrew Sayers, Eric Wilson, Newcastle, 1983, 53 (illus.). cat.no: 52
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