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Daphne Mayo Papers File
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Portraits of women

Oil on paper: Five portraits of women: 1. Woman with hat (patterned with feather); 2. Woman with white hat; 3. Woman with pony tail; 4. Woman in red jacket, reflected in mirror behind her; 5. Woman in white dress, hands held to her chest.

Still lifes

Oil on paper. Nine still lifes: [Item 1] Unfinished still life; [Item 2] Pumpkin (oil on paper on card); [Item 3] Woman with head scarf; [Item 4] Jug, jar and fruit on dish; [Item 5] Jug, bowl, and vegetables; [Item 6] Blue hydrangea; [Item 7] Vase with flowers, bottle, cup and saucer; [Item 8] Two vases; [Item 9] Two still lifes.

Pen and pencil drawings from Mayo’s Sydney studio

Mostly pen and pencil drawings from Mayo’s Sydney studio from 1940s to 1950s. Includes a window mounted pen drawing of Susannah which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, Nov 2011 to Jan 2012.

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions.
• Sketches for Public Library of New South Wales doors: draft drawing for doors (with individually pinned pictures for panels, 56 x 38 cm); 10 sketches, sizes vary, includes notes on possible content for the doors; 1 folded set of sketches, middle pages have been cut or torn with titles for some -- 'Childhood', 'Boomerang practice' and 'Axeman'; drawing, pencil with chalk on wrapping paper, 1940, 31 x 22 cm, window mounted (56 x 40 cm) which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, in 2011.
• Charcoal drawing, double sided (61 x 61 cm).
• Charcoal sketch [for the Wild White Horse and Susannah?].
• Sketch, pen [for Bancroft medal?]
• Notebook, no covers, with 10 sketches of birds (pelican, jabiru).
• Sketch [for pelican fountain?] on part of large envelope.
• 3 sketches [for Dr Christine Rivett?]
• 1 double sided sketch [for Kings School Memorial?]
• 2 sketches for Unsung Heroine of War.
• Sketch for Church of the Holy Spirit, Newfarm.
• Sketch from the 1940s?
• Sketch, with notes [for Lion Tamer?]
• 2 sketches on lined paper for Man in the Street.
• 14 Sketches (34 cm) [for youth at Knox School?]
• Facial measures for portrait bust of woman (very fragile and breaking apart).
• Diagram for carving of Brisbane City Hall tympanum, left hand side only, showing stone joints and various depths of relief.
• Sketch, 57 x 185 cm, uneven edge on right hand side [for The Olympian?]
• Studies on one lined page for the Fat Man.

Sketch pads relating to her artistic work

6 large sketch pads and 1 account ledger. Sketch pads have notes and drawings (in pencil, pen). Account ledger (33 cm) has notes on firings of sculptures with dates ranging from 1946 to 1956, lists of names and addresses, and general notes.

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