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Details
- Date
- circa 1945
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- brush and ink on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.2 x 31.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Stamped l.r. black ink with "Joy Hester" estate stamp. Not dated.
- Credit
- D G Wilson Bequest Fund 2015
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 335.2015
- Copyright
- © Estate of Joy Hester/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Joy Hester
Works in the collection
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About
This work comes from a series of drawings made by the artist during and shortly after the Second World War, during her marriage to fellow artist Albert Tucker and about the time her first child, Sweeney, was born in 1945. Tucker had been drafted, briefly and unwillingly, into the army in 1942 and reports of the war, including footage of concentration camps shown in Melbourne, aroused strong passions in Hester – she was acutely aware of the detrimental effects of war, especially the psychological and emotional disturbance on the civilian population. She made a number of portrait drawings about this time, including ' Frightened' (also in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection), in which the eyes of her subjects have a particular resonance and force.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Joy Hester: works from the Reed Family Collection, Gould Galleries Melbourne, South Yarra, 27 Apr 2005–22 May 2005
Joy Hester: works from the Reed Family Collection, Gould Galleries Sydney, Woollahra, 01 Jun 2005–26 Jun 2005
Joy Hester, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 14 Mar 2020–14 Feb 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Gould Galleries Melbourne, Joy Hester: Works from the Reed Family Collection, South Yarra, 2005, cat. 17. colour illus.
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