Australia (The Great Barrier Reef)
Primary Artist
Eileen Mayo (1906–1994)
Title
Australia (The Great Barrier Reef)
Date made
1959 – (1959)
Place made
Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne View on map Close map
Category
Poster
Print type
planographic
Technique
lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones
Matrix size
100.8 x 63.4 cm (printed image)
Support
cream wove lithographic paper
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
2530
Accession number
93.2379
Accession method
Gift
Meeting
Meeting 2, 1993/94 (1993-10-27)
Provenance
With the artist until her death in New Zealand in 1994. Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Margaret MacKean-Taylor, legatee of the estate, Palmerston North, New Zealand, October 1993. The estate was divided by the place of production of works. British work was deposited with the Victorian and Albert Museum, London; Australian work with the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; and New Zealand work with New Zealand collections.
Credit line
Gift of Margaret MacKean-Taylor 1993
Subject category
Australia, travel poster: Queensland
Country of context
Australia
Notes
Poster no.118 "The Great Barrier Reef poster was chosen as one of seven best international posters of 1959/60". Cassidy, Jill "Eileen Mayo, painter/designer" 1992 National Library of New Zealand, Wellington p 27.
Creators
Australian National Travel Association. | (1934–1970) Australian | Organisation | client
Mayo, Eileen. | (1906–1994) Aotearoa New Zealander | Australian | English | Female | artist
McLaren. | Australian | printer