Title

A young Australian

1930
cast 1931

Artist

Daphne Mayo

Australia

01 Oct 1895 – 31 Jul 1982

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Details

Dates

1930
cast 1931

Media category

Sculpture

Materials used

bronze, marble

Dimensions

51.0 x 35.2 x 18.1 cm overall :
a - figure, 43 x 35.2 x 18.1 cm, figure

b - base, 8 x 17.8 x 11.7 cm, base

Signature & date

Signed and dated left on back, incised "D MAYO/ 1930".

Credit

Purchased 1930

Location

South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries

Accession number

701.a-b

Copyright

© Estate of Daphne Mayo

Artist information

Daphne Mayo
Works in the collection

6

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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
- The Sydney Art School retrospective exhibition, 1890-1933, Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 01 Mar 1933–28 Mar 1933
- Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 01 Oct 1941–26 Oct 1941
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17 Nov 1941–31 Dec 1941
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ottawa, 15 Jan 1942–15 Feb 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Yale University Art Gallery, United States of America, 02 Mar 1942–23 Mar 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 03 Apr 1942–15 May 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, 01 Jun 1942–27 Jun 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 10 Jul 1942–27 Aug 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Toledo Museum of Art, United States of America, 06 Sep 1942–27 Sep 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, 05 Oct 1942–02 Nov 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Cleveland Museum of Art, United States of America, 09 Nov 1942–07 Dec 1942
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Detroit Institiute of Arts, Detroit, 01 Jan 1943–29 Jan 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 05 Feb 1943–28 Feb 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, 07 Mar 1943–28 Mar 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, 08 Apr 1943–05 May 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Fort Wayne Art School and Museum, Fort Wayne, 12 May 1943–31 May 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 07 Sep 1943–08 Oct 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, 20 Oct 1943–17 Nov 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Dallas, 28 Nov 1943–26 Dec 1943
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, Abilene, 10 Jan 1944–07 Feb 1944
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Heard Museum, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, Phoenix, 21 Feb 1944–20 Mar 1944
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 04 Apr 1944–07 May 1944
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rosicrucian Egyptian Oriental Museum, San Jose, 19 May 1944–16 Jun 1944
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Hamline University, St Paul, 01 Dec 1944–17 Dec 1944
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Society Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial, Omaha, 06 Jan 1945–27 Jan 1945
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, United States of America, 06 Feb 1945–27 Feb 1945
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Quincy Art Club, Quincy, 09 Mar 1945–30 Mar 1945
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 13 Apr 1945–04 May 1945
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 14 May 1945–04 Jun 1945
  
  Art of Australia 1788-1941, North Texas State Teachers' College, Denton, 14 Jun 1945–05 Jul 1945
- Australian women artists: one hundred years, 1840-1940, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Oct 1975–02 Nov 1975
- "When I was young...": artists' impressions of childhood, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, 09 Nov 2002–02 Feb 2003
- Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003
- Daphne Mayo: let there be sculpture, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 05 Nov 2011–15 Jan 2012
- Brave New World; Australia 1930s, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 14 Jul 2017–15 Oct 2017
- 20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
- Isobel Crombie and Elena Taylor (Editors), Brave new world: Australia 1930s, Melbourne, 2017, 61 (colour illus.), 184.
- Deborah Edwards, Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 62 (colour illus., detail), 63, 64, 83. cat.no. 55
- Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Classical allusions', pg. 135-136, Sydney, 2000, 136, 140 (colour illus.), 301.
- Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 166 [Sculpture in Gallery No. 2]
- Judith McKay, Daphne Mayo: let there be sculpture, 'A monumental career', pg. 16-33, Brisbane, 2011, 22, 23 (caption), 24 (colour illus.), 36, 76, 82.
- Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Art of Australia 1788-1941, New York, 1941, 49. cat.no. 131
- John Young and Henry Gibbons, The Sydney Art School retrospective exhibition 1890-1933, Sydney, 1933. cat.no. 347