Title
Study for 'Genesis'
1991
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1991
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal, collage, squared with pencil on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 37.9 x 51.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., charcoal "Gleeson 5.5.91".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2001
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 189.2001
- Artist information
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James Gleeson
Works in the collection
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About
'Genesis really described what I had in mind. Forms issuing from the darkness into the light and becoming concrete shapes and forms, the beginning', James Gleeson 27 August 2003.
The first study for this drawing is in the AGNSW's Gleeson 'Sketchbook 3'.
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'James Gleeson: drawings for paintings', Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003, pg. 97.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 2003–15 Jun 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hal Missingham, A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Sydney, 1953, 97 (colour illus.). cat.no. 43
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