Title
Luna Park with Griffin light
1953
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Melbourne
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Australia
- Date
- 1953
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 52.2 x 60.1 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l., pencil "BLACKMAN 53".
- Credit
- Purchased 1984
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 289.1984
- Copyright
- © Estate of Charles Blackman/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Charles Blackman
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About
Born in Sydney in 1928, Charles Blackman moved to Melbourne where he established a studio in 1951. Blackman found the urban environment congenial to his work which reflected domestic and city life, as well as themes stimulated by the literature he was reading at the time. It was during his first year in Melbourne that Blackman discovered the bayside suburb of St Kilda, where he would travel by tram to swim, draw and visit Luna Park. The drawings led to a series of paintings on the same theme. The 'Griffin light' at the centre of the composition refers to the distinctive street lights along the Esplanade in St Kilda, which were designed by the architect Walter Burley Griffin.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
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Places
Where the work was made
Melbourne
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Contemporary Australian Drawings - from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Jan 1992–17 Feb 1992
Contemporary Australian Drawings - from the collection, Nolan Gallery, Australia, 01 May 1992–08 Jun 1992
Contemporary Australian Drawings - from the collection, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, 12 Jun 1992–12 Jul 1992
Contemporary Australian Drawings - from the collection, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, 14 Oct 1992–08 Nov 1992
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Stephanie Holt and Jennifer Phipps (Curators), Luna park and the Art of Mass Delirium, Melbourne, 1998, 46.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Contemporary Australian drawings: from the collection, Sydney, 1992. cat.no. 1
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 96 (illus.). cat.no. 88
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