Title
Installation view of the exhibition 'The field', 1968, Art Gallery of New South Wales
November 1968
Artist
New South Wales Government Printing Office
1840 – 25 Jul 1989
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Domain
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- November 1968
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 24.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- National Art Archive. Art Gallery of New South Wales Institutional Archive
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- ARC30.906.13
- Copyright
- © Art Gallery of New South Wales © the artists
- Artist information
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New South Wales Government Printing Office
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About
'The field' was the inaugural exhibition for the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria in its new home on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, in 1968. It featured a selection of 74 works by artists working in Australia. After being shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, it was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 30 October to 24 November 1968.
This photograph shows on the left hand wall Robert Hunter 'Untitled' 1968, Gunter Christmann 'Krimhilde' 1967 and Janet Dawson 'Wall' 1968, James Doolin 'Artificial landscape 67-5' 1967 on the far wall at the extreme right, Tony Coleing 'Untitled' 1968 and Noel Dunn 'Untitled' 1967 on the floor and Paul Partos 'Vesta II' 1968 on the free standing wall. Paul Partos' 'Vesta II' 1968 are both now held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.