Title
White lines (vertical) on ultramarine
(1970-1973)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- TP73
- Date
- (1970-1973)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- diptych: styrene-based house paint, polyvinyl acetate and pigment on hardboard
- Dimensions
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213.5 x 244.6 cm board overall
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a - left panel, 213.5 x 122.3 cm, board
b - right panel, 213.5 x 122.3 cm, board
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Annette Dupree 1976
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 127.1976.a-b
- Copyright
- © Estate of the artist/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Tony Tuckson
Works in the collection
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About
'If we consider the several components manifested in a work of art ... foremost is man himself, the artist ... but equally important is the use of his intuitive faculties - the influence of the unconscious.'
- Tony Tuckson 1964It is for his later paintings such as 'White lines (vertical) on ultramarine' that Tony Tuckson is admired as one of Australia's finest abstract expressionists. From the late 1950s, he used increasingly simplified forms and restricted colour to concentrate on the act of painting, and to tap into the unconscious as mentioned above. While absorbing developments in European and American abstraction and admiring the work of fellow Australian artist Ian Fairweather, Tuckson's approach is perhaps most strongly allied to his lifelong interest in Aboriginal and Melanesian art.
Tuckson's career as a painter was somewhat overshadowed by his work as a gallery administrator, whereby he is recognised for establishing the Art Gallery's Aboriginal and Melanesian collections and greatly assisting in their recognition as unique artistic traditions and highly creative living cultures.
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Audio
White lines (vertical) on ultramarine - Tony Tuckson 2:32
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Tony Tuckson, Watters Gallery, East Sydney, 11 Apr 1973–05 May 1973
Tony Tuckson 1921-1973, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Apr 1976–09 May 1976
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986
1988 Australian Biennale: from the Southern Cross: a view of world art c.1940-88, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 May 1988–03 Jul 1988
1988 Australian Biennale: from the Southern Cross: a view of world art c.1940-88, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 04 Aug 1988–18 Sep 1988
Ink: Whiteley and others (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 29 Apr 2006–20 Aug 2006
Tony Tuckson: the abstract sublime, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Nov 2018–17 Feb 2019
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 16 publications
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Susan Borham (Editor in Chief) and Michael Hutak (Editor), Australian art collector, Sydney, Apr 2001-Jun 2001, 60 (illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Introduction', pg. 8-14, Sydney, 1986, 40 (illus.). cat.no. 44
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Renée Free, Geoffrey Legge and Daniel Thomas AM, Tony Tuckson, Sydney, 2006, 140 (colour illus.), 200. plate no. 153
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Sasha Grishin, Australian art: a history, 'There is no art capital in Australia', pg.492-501, Carlton, 2013, 498, 499 (colour illus.), 553, 569. plate no. 45.5
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. 102-181, Sydney, 1999, 165 (colour illus.).
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Jonathan Jones and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Jonathan Jones: the tyranny of distance, 'Jonathan Jones in conversation with Hetti Perkins', pg. 12-19, Sydney, 2008, 14 (colour illus.).
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Susan McCulloch, Alan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art, 'A prophet in his own country', pg. xi, Carlton, 2006, xi, 967-968.
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 87 (colour illus.).
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Sandra McGrath, Art and Australia (vol. 12, no. 2), 'Tony Tuckson', pg. 156-166, Sydney, Oct 1974-Dec 1974, cover (colour illus.). dated c.1972-73.
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Denise Mimmocchi (Editor), Tony Tuckson, Sydney, 2018, cover (colour illus.) (detail), 48, 49, 74, 75, 76 (colour illus.), 77, 78-79 (colour illus.) (detail), 132-33 (colour illus.), 209, 223.
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Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Landscape and gesture', pg. 239-240, Sydney, 2000, 259 (colour illus.), 302.
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John Saxby (Editor), Look, 'Art that made me: Ildiko Kovacs', pg. 14-15, Sydney, Apr 2016, 15 (colour illus.).
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Daniel Thomas AM, Tony Tuckson 1921-1973, Sydney, 1976, 29, 40 (illus.).
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Aida Tomescu, Look, 'Fluid construction', Sydney, Jan 2019-Feb 2019, 62, 63 (colour illus.).
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Nick Waterlow (Director), The 1988 Australian Biennale: from the Southern Cross: a view of world art c.1940-88, List of works in the exhibition 276-282, Sydney, 1988, 282.
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INK: Whiteley and Others, Sydney, 2006. List of works
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