Title
Ant hills, Australia
1950
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Anthill
Anthills
Ant hills - Date
- 1950
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 91.5 x 122.0 cm board; 94.5 x 122.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "24-1-50/ Nolan". Signed and dated l.l. verso, crayon ".../ 1950/ Nolan".
- Credit
- Gift of Edron Pty Ltd - 1995 through the auspices of Alistair McAlpine
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 431.1995
- Copyright
- © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Sidney Nolan
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Sidney Nolan: exhibition of Central Australian landscapes (1950), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 31 Mar 1950–14 Apr 1950
Nolan (1961), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 24 Mar 1961–06 May 1961
Nolan (1961), Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 13 May 1961–03 Jun 1961
Nolan (1961), Temple Newsam House, England, 10 Jun 1961–01 Jul 1961
Nolan (1961), Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 08 Jul 1961–29 Jul 1961
Nolan (1961), City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Bristol, 05 Aug 1961–26 Aug 1961
Nolan (1961), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 02 Sep 1961–23 Sep 1961
Nolan (1961), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 30 Sep 1961–28 Oct 1961
Nolan (1961), Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, 04 Nov 1961–28 Nov 1961
The Cynthia Nolan collection of paintings by Sidney Nolan, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 07 Jul 1975–26 Jul 1975
Sidney Nolan: Desert and Drought, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 06 Jun 2003–17 Aug 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Christopher Heathcote, Encounters with Australian modern art, 'Reconstruction culture 1945-1962', pg. 9-56, South Yarra, 2008, 19 (colour illus.), 20, 22. Related work reproduced: titled 'Anthills', dated 1950, private collection.
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Colin Simpson, Australian image, 'Central Australian country', Sydney, 1956, 1 (illus.).
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Geoffrey Smith, Sidney Nolan: desert & drought, Melbourne, 2003, 48 (colour illus.), 148. cat.no. 26; titled 'Anhill'
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Emma Soames., Vogue living, 'Remote oasis', Sydney, Dec 1987-Jan 1988, 124 (illus.).
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