Title
Image of plaster bust of Nellie Stewart by Dora Ohlfsen
Artist
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Details
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- copy print of a gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 20.3 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- National Art Archive. Gift of Dora Stanford 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- ARC366.1.14
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Dora Ohlfsen
Works in the collection
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About
Nellie Stewart was an Australian-born actress and singer known as Sweet Nell. This photograph shows the plaster bust which Dora Olhlfsen based on the drawings she had made of Stewart on one of her return visits to Australia. A final version of the bust was carved in pink Milanese marble.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Oct 2019–08 Mar 2020
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Tom Cochran, "Dora Ohlfsen's work", 07 Apr 1932.
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"Miss Nellie Stewart", Aug 1932, p.43. illus.
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