File File 69 - Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions

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UQFL119-Series H-File 69

Title

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions

Date(s)

  • 1926?-1956? (Creation)

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Extent and medium

ca. 63 drawings ; sizes vary.

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Scope and content

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.

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Accruals

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unsorted.

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Conditions governing access

Unrestricted access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright applies. Contact the Fryer Library.

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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

At time of processing, draft drawing for New South Wales public library panel doors (with pinned pictures for panels, 56 x 38 cm) has rusty dressmaking pins - requires photographic preservation and conservation.

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Note

Oversize folder 9 Folder 1

Alternative identifier(s)

Art Number

00487

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Status

Final

Level of detail

Minimal

Dates of creation revision deletion

Created, Linda Justo, 11-Nov-2020.

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Sources

Mayo, D., McKay, J., Hawker, M., & Queensland Art Gallery. (2011). Daphne Mayo : Let there be sculpture. South Brisbane, Qld.: Queensland Art Gallery.

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Physical storage

  • Oversize folder: UQFL119 Oversize folder 9