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C1927
Kookaburras
Three works of Kookaburras by the artist and master print maker, James Squire Morgan from the estate of the artist/etcher, John Barclay Godson. Fine unsigned pencil drawing Proof etching, unsigned Published etching number of 75 The proof etching shows the … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Kookaburras
Date:
C1927
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Pencil drawing.
Image Size:
183mm
x 132mm
AUTHENTICITY
Guaranteed Vintage Item
dated:
1927
Description:
Three works of Kookaburras by the artist and master print maker, James Squire Morgan from the estate of the artist/etcher, John Barclay Godson.
- Fine unsigned pencil drawing
- Proof etching, unsigned
- Published etching number of 75
The proof etching shows the additions; to the trunk of the tree and to the Kookaburra on the right.
Sold as a set of three:
1. The original preparatory pencil drawing for the etching, unsigned.
2. Proof plate, untitled, unsigned and unnumbered.
3. Published etching, titled, numbered and signed in pencil.
Morgan first exhibited the finished etching 30 May 1927 – 18 June 1927, at the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Australian Painter-Etchers’ Society, Education Department Gallery, 5th floor, Loftus St., Sydney.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist, John Barclay Godson.
Collections:
National Gallery Australia: LEGACY ID 1000011247 (numbered etching only)
James Squire Morgan (1886 - 1974)
Morgan was an artist educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney’s Fort Street High School. Not long after leaving school he decided to become an artist, and from 1905 to 1909 he studied with Julian Ashton and Sydney Long at the Sydney Art School (later known as the Julian Ashton Art School). By this time Morgan seems to have been known personally, and professionally, as Squire Morgan. While his relationship with the influential Julian Ashton is unknown, Morgan was clearly on good terms with Long, and during the early 1920’s acted as his agent in Sydney. Morgan’s debut as an artist was at the Society of Artists’ (SOA) 1908 spring show at the Society’s rooms at Sydney’s Queen Victoria Markets, where he exhibited five works. Morgan works focused mainly on landscape views of the New South Wales coast and Sydney’s rural hinterland. Popular sketching spots included Sydney’s northern beaches, especially Dee Why, and the Canberra region. He is represented in numerous institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, Mitchell Library, and National Library of Australia.
