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Details
- Other Title
- Portrait of Margaret Olley
- Place where the work was made
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Hill End
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- Date
- 1948
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and black ink, wash on cream wove paper laid on board
- Dimensions
- 37.6 x 27.8 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.r. corner, pen and black ink “Donald. '48”.
- Credit
- Bequest of Margaret Olley 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 203.2012
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Donald Friend/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Donald Friend
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About
Margaret Olley went to stay with her friend Donald Friend in Hill End, where he had bought a cottage and was working on his major piece 'Apocalypse of St John the Divine', for three weeks in May 1948. While there, they spurred each other on, working hard at painting and drawing, both in the surrounding landscape, and in the cottage. As well as being a very productive period for both of them, it also marked the deepening of their friendship, beautifully expressed in this intimate portrait by one artist, of another.
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Places
Where the work was made
Hill End
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Margaret Olley: painter, peer, mentor, muse, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 07 Jan 2017–26 Mar 2017
Margaret Olley: a generous life, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 15 Jun 2019–13 Oct 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Renée Porter, Margaret Olley: painter, peer, mentor, muse, 'Margaret Olley: a celebration of life in paint', pg. 8-89, The Rocks, 2017, 54 (colour illus.), 112.
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