LOT DETAILS

Materials:

color linocut on cream oriental laid paper printed from five blocks in grey, slate blue, black, red-brown and green

Measurements:

7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (height) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Edition:

from an edition of approximately 30

Markings:

titled, numbered, signed and dated below image: 'The Timber Crane. 3, E.L. Spowers 1926'; monogramed in plate: 'ELS'

Exhibited:

Exhibition of Wood-Cuts and Water-Colours by Ethel Spowers, New Gallery, Melbourne, 2-13 August 1927, cat. 29 (another example),Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10-25 July 1936, cat. 1 (another example)

Literature:

The Art of Ethel Spowers', The Age, Melbourne, 2 August 1927, p. 7,'Miss Spowers's Water Colours', The Argus, Melbourne, 2 August 1927, p. 19,Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES6, p. 168, 169 (illus. another example)

Provenance:

Private collection, Perth,thence by descent,Private collection, Perth