Tug of War

Catalogue Details

Ethel Spowers 
Tug of War 1933 
colour linocut
20.2 x 28.4 cm
edition of 50
usually signed and dated in image lower right; titled and numbered lower left (Coppel ES 25)

Collections

Impressions held in private and public collections

Exhibited

Impressions have been exhibited in private and public galleries and museums

London, 1933
Sydney, 1933
Melbourne, 1933
London, 1936
Sydney, 1936
Birmingham, 1939
London, 1939
Melbourne, 1948
Melbourne, 1978
Ballarat and touring 1981
Canberra and touring, 1992-1993
Canberra and touring, 2022-2023
Canberra, 2023

Literature / Referenced

‘Colour Prints and Paintings. Measure of a Medium’, The Morning Post, 3 June 1933
Streeton, Arthur, ‘Prints and Paintings: Three New Shows: Miss Spowers’s Art, ‘ The Argus, 28 November 1933
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
Leahy, Cathy, ‘Ethel Spowers’ in Bullock, Natasha, et al. (ed). Know My Name, 2020
Noordhuis-Fairfax, Sarina, Spowers and Syme, 2021

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