Title
Sydney Harbour Bridge construction
1927
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1927
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 38.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Conal Coad and Colin Beutel 2019
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 81.2019
- Copyright
- © Adelaide Perry Estate
- Artist information
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Adelaide Perry
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About
Adelaide Perry was an important figure in inter-war Sydney modernist circles and she had a remarkable facility for drawing. Her perceptive and angular rendering of form was acutely expressed in drawings from life, including portraiture, still life, landscape and the nude. As a teacher of art to aspiring professionals as well as children, she utilised life drawing and printmaking in instructing others, as well as in her own practice.
Born in Victoria in 1891, Perry settled in Sydney in 1925 after studies at the NGV School, Royal Academy, London, and in Paris. Perry exhibited widely in Australia in the 1920s and 30s, from the relatively progressive Contemporary Group and Grosvenor Galleries to the more conservative Society of Artists and Australian Academy of Art.
In 1926, she established her own school, and exhibited with the first Contemporary Group show with Thea Proctor and George Lambert. She was also a highly regarded and influential teacher at the Julian Ashton School. She later taught art at a Sydney girls’ school, PLC Croydon, from WWII until her retirement, all the while maintaining a painting practice.
This dynamic and fluent drawing is a study for a painting of Sydney Harbour. Perry made numerous drawings, paintings and prints depicting Sydney Harbour and the construction of the Harbour Bridge in the 1920s and 30s including her finest print The Bridge, October 1929.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Adelaide Perry, Artarmon Galleries, Artarmon, 11 Nov 2017–30 Nov 2017