Primary Artist

Mary Moore (1957–)

Title

Oxo Tower, outside Blackfriars

Reference

Moore (1993), 25

Date made

1980

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in colour, from five plates, etching printed in black ink, from one plate

Support

white Arches BFK Rives wove paper

Edition information

edition of 18

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

6232

Accession number

96.504

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1995/96 (1996-06-26)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from the artist, Fremantle, 1996.

Credit line

Gordon Darling Australasian Print Fund 1996

Copyright

© Mary Moore

Country of context

Australia

Notes

Shown RCA Degree 1980. Shown Gallery 52, 1981. Shown 'OzPop' AGWA 1992. "This print was made while I was very influenced by the 1930 postcard of the Chrysler Building in New York. It's about the monument again, and a tower that very symbolic to me, because when I always signed my work OXO (hug kiss hug). I found it after much searching even though its three stories high, so that's why its enlarged.

Creators

Moore, Mary. | (1957–) Australian | Female | artist