The Rose 1927

Thea Proctor (1879-1966)

The Rose 1927

hand-coloured woodcut
22.0 x 20.5 cm
titled and signed below image

Provenance:
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, 1992

Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
The New Gallery, Melbourne, October 1927, cat. 58 (another example)

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, November 1938, cat. 34 (another example)

Project 21 - Women's Images of Women, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 October - 13 November 1977 (another example)

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

Etchings, Lithographs, Watercolours and Drawings, etc: Australian, English, European and Oriental, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, March 1992 (illus. exhibition catalogue, cover)

Review: Works by Women from the Permanent Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 March - 4 June 1995 (another example)

Art Deco: from Sydney Cinemas and Pubs to Skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 June - 5 September 1999 (another example)

The Story of Australian Printmaking 1801-2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 30 March - 3 June 2007 (another example)

Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & linocuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March - 11 July 2010 (another example)

Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July 2013 - 7 October 2013 (another example)

Reference:
The Home, vol.8, no.7, 1 July 1927, (illus. front cover, another example)

Art in Australia, vol.3, no.26, December 1928, p.29 (illus. another example).

Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 30s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p.39 (illus. another example). 'Project 21: Women's Images of Women', Sydney, 1977, cat.36 (another example)

'A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950', Armadale, 1978, p. 28 (illus., another example), cat.41

Butler, R., Thea Proctor: The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, cat.19, pp.60-61 (illus. another example)

Minchin, J., The Prints: Thea Proctor, Sydney, 1980, pp.18, 19, 20, 60, 61, cat.19 (illus. pp.19,61)

Gooding, J., Thea Proctor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1982, pp.2,12, cat.6 (illus. p.12, another example)

Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, p. 120 (illus., another example)

Review: Works by Women from the Permanent Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, p.3 (illus., another example)

Holden, R., Cover Up: The Art of Magazine Covers in Australia, Sydney, 1995, pp.91,103,105,106 (illus. p.105, another example)

Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism, Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, pp.158,159,161, (illus. p.159, pl.94, another example)

Gerrish Nunn, P., Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: the Gender of Ornament, Aldershot, 2002, p.78

Sayers, A., The World of Thea Proctor, Canberra, 2005, pp.11,44,50,122 (illus. p.122 another example)

McCulloch, A., McCulloch, S., & McCulloch Childs, E., The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Miegunyah, Melbourne, 2006, p.798 (illus., another example)

Butler, R., Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, pp.167,196 (illus. p.167, another example)

Campbell, H., 'Colour, Rhythm and Design: Wood and Linocuts from a Time of Great Creative Vitality', Look, Art Gallery of New South Wales Society, Sydney, February 2010, p.13 (illus. p.14, another example)

Campbell, H., Colour, Rhythm, Design: Wood & Linocuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010 (illus. front cover, p.3, another example)

Edwards, D., Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 99 (illus., another example), 315

Elias, A., Useless Beauty: Flowers and Australian Art, United Kingdom, 2015, pp.130, 241 (illus. pl.44, another example).

Related Works:
Other examples of this woodcut are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, the S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria

Estimate: $6000 - 9000

Result Hammer: $5000