- UQFL119-Series H-Item 85
- Item
- undated
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Fibreglass cast of child's head.
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Fibreglass cast of child's head.
Female figure, with long hair and grey and blue glaze on drape
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Free standing plaster female figure with long hair and and grey and blue glaze on drape. Left foot has broken off.
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Plaster cast of baby's head [possibly a preliminary plaster cast for the baby portrait of Lindsay Gribb]
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Fibreglass model, painted green with some gold. The Little Blackie sculpture depicts the smaller than life-sized head of an Aboriginal baby. One of the most reproduced of all Daphne Mayo's works. One bronze head was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) from the Three Sculptors Exhibition in Sydney in 1946. Daphne Mayo would not assigned copyright to the the AGNSW.
Female figure, with green glaze
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Plaster female figure, not full freestanding piece, drape wtih green glaze.
Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
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.
Studies for the Trophy for Winton's Bronze Swagman Award for Bush Verse
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Studies for the Trophy for Winton's Bronze Swagman Award for Bush Verse.
Plaster copy of Winged victory of Samothrace
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Plaster copy of Daphne Mayo's copy of the Winged victory of Samothrace that she created while studying at Brisbane's Central Technical College. The college had a plaster cast that she used as a model. It won her the inaugural (1914) Queensland Wattle Day Leagues travelling art scholarship training in Europe. One wing has fallen off. It does not have a plinth.
Female figure with pot raised on head [number 2 ]
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Fibreglass model of female figure with pot raised on head. Coming apart along both sides of the body, both arms taped, left leg taped once and right leg was taped but that has fallen off.
Abstract pattern designs [for ceramics and fabrics?] including prints from lino block
Part of Daphne Mayo Papers
Abstract pattern designs [for ceramics and fabrics?] including prints from lino block. Includes experiements with colours, a small warrior picture, some with lesson title, and some with lesson numbers.