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C1922
Cattleman’s hut.
Artist:
This is Davies first published engraving executed in 1922, signed and numbered “No 5-50 Proofs” in pencil. Roy Davies began wood engraving in 1921 and with his first published print, Cattleman’s Hut. At that time, Lionel Lindsay was also beginning … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Cattleman’s hut.
Date:
C1922
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Wood engraving signed in pencil and numbered No.5 of 50 proofs.
Image Size:
140mm
x 105mm
AUTHENTICITY
Guaranteed Vintage Item
dated:
1922
Description:
This is Davies first published engraving executed in 1922, signed and numbered “No 5-50 Proofs” in pencil.
Roy Davies began wood engraving in 1921 and with his first published print, Cattleman’s Hut. At that time, Lionel Lindsay was also beginning to work in the wood engraving technique, and through the illustrator David Barker, Lindsay contacted Davies and invited him to his studio. In 1923 Davies then exhibited 12 wood engravings at Tyrrell’s Limited, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, in an Exhibition of Woodcuts.
Exhibition of Woodcuts. Tyrrell’s Galleries. (1 August 1923 – 1 August 1923)
Collections:
Not in the Art Gallery of NSW, or National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria.
References:
Bloomfield, L., L. Roy Davies Wood Engravings. 1978 Sydney :: p.38, pl. 10.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: LEGACY ID 1000002433
Bloomfield, L., L. Roy Davies Wood Engravings. 1978 Sydney :: p.38, pl. 10.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: LEGACY ID 1000002433
Lewis Roy Davies (1897 - 1979)
Printmaker and the first principal of the National Art School, East Sydney Technical College. Davies was born in Sydney and studied at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and Mildred Lovett in 1913. In 1921 he began wood engraving with assistance from Lionel Lindsay and was included in Tyrell’s exhibition of woodcuts 1923.
