Landscape

Primary Artist

Guy Grey-Smith (1916–1981)

Title

Landscape

Date made

1975

Place made

Australia, Australia, Western Australia, Darlington View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

relief

Technique

woodcut, printed in black ink, from one block

Matrix size

20.2 x 36.2 cm (printed image)

Support

white wove paper

Support size

27.6 x 46.4 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

20/58

Edition information

edition of 58

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed and dated lower left within printed image in blue ball-point pen, 'G. Grey Smith / '75'. Inscribed lower left within printed image in blue ballpoint pen, '20/58' Titled lower right below printed image in black pencil, 'LANDSCAPE'

Subject description

Landscape formed by turning image of sheoak on its side.

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

156496

Accession number

93.636

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1992/93 (1993-06-23)

Provenance

With the artist until his death in 1981. By descent to Mark Grey Smith, the artist's son. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Mark Grey Smith, Canberra June 1993.

Credit line

Gift of Mark Grey Smith, the artist's son 1993

Country of context

Australia

Notes

Note in Hendrik Kolenberg's 1976 catalogue Guy Grey Smith - Prints "1st woodcut? (or one of the first) an upturned sheoak (the artist turned block on its side to make a landscape)"

Creators

Grey-Smith, Guy | (1916–1981) Australian | Male | artist

Last Updated

11 Jan 2013