The Swing
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Modern
The Swing
Medium hand coloured woodcut edn. of 19
Dimensions 24.5 x 24.5 cm (image)
Date 1926
Details

signed lower right: TP monogram in image

signed lower right: Thea Proctor 1926

inscribed lower left: The Swing No 19

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© Art Gallery of New South Wales

Provenance

private collection, Victoria

Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 1980

private collection, Melbourne

Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne

private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 41 (another example)

Exhibition of Fan Designs, Paintings on Silk, Watercolours, Drawings and Woodcuts by Thea Proctor, Argonaut Gallery, Adelaide, 3 – 18 October 1929, cat. 52 (another example)

Tribute to Thea Proctor, Wales House Gallery, Sydney, 17 July – 9 August 1963, cat. 21 (another example)

Project 39 - Women's Imprint, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 – 31 October 1982 (another example)

Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 30 April – 30 May 1987, cat. 141a (another example)

Australian Art: 1790s - 1970s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 24 November – 9 December 1988, cat. 44 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)

Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 10 – 24 September 1981, cat. 93 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 82, another example)

Literature

Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s - 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 12, 38 (illus., another example)

Deutscher, C., Minchin, J. and Butler, R., Thea Proctor: The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 16, p. 54 – 55 (illus., another example)

Gooding, J., Thea Proctor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1982, pp. 2, 9, (illus., another example), 12

Eagle, M. and Jones, J., A Story of Australian Painting, Macmillan, Sydney, 1994, pl. 50, pp. 144, 145 (illus., another example)

Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, pp. 154, 155 (another example)

Elliot, B. and Helland, J. (eds), Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament, Aldershot, Burlington, 2002, pp. 79, 80 (another example)

Sayer, A., Humphries, B., and Engledow, S., The World of Thea Proctor, Craftsman House, Sydney, p. 11 (another example)

Butler, R., Printed: Images by Australian artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, pp. 131, 166 (illus., another example)

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