Resting Models

Catalogue Details

Ethel Spowers 
Resting Models 1933-1934 
colour linocut
19.6 x 26.6 cm
edition of 50
usually signed and dated below image lower right; titled and numbered lower left. Early (low-numbered) impressions dated 1933, others dated 1934 (Coppel ES 29)

In 1933 Ethel Spowers sister Myra Keats wrote in a personal letter to her husband about Spowers having a model sitting for her.

Collections

Impressions held in private and public collections

Exhibited

Impressions have been exhibited in private and public galleries and museums

Melbourne 1934
Ballarat 1976
Melbourne 1977
Melbourne 1978
Ballarat and touring 1981
Canberra and touring 1992-1993
Adelaide and touring 2001
Sydney 2010
Sydney 2016
Ballarat 2019
Shepparton 2020
Canberra and touring 2021-2023
Canberra 2023

Literature / Referenced

Young, Blamire, The Herald, 30 July 1934
Radford, Ron, Outlines of Australian Printmaking: Prints of Australia from the last third of the 18th century, until the present time, 1976
Butler, Roger and Deutsher, Chris, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, 1978
Butler, Roger, Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s, 1981
Coppel, Stephen, Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, 1992
Coppel, Stephen, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, 1995
Topliss, Helen, Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, 1996
Hylton, Jane, Modern Australian Women: paintings & prints 1925-1945, 2000
O’Connor, N., Slow Burn: A Century of Australian Women Artists from a Private Collection, 2010
Brush, Craig, Look, 2013
Eighty Years of SAM, 2016;
McLaren, Julie, and Tegart, Louise, Becoming Modern: Australian Women Artists 1920-1950, 2019
Noordhuis-Fairfax, Sarina, Spowers and Syme, 2021

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