• Title
  Item 01: Portrait of Margaret Coen, 1932 / Edmund Arthur Harvey
• Creator
  Edmund Arthur Harvey, 1907-1994
• Call number
  ML 1305
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 238
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1932
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1038151
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - image 74 x 58.8 cm, frame 92 x 76.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Edmund Arthur Harvey (1907-94) was a British-born Australian painter of landscapes in oils. From 1927-28 he worked as assistant to George Lambert. Harvey was elected member of the Society of Artists in 1932. In 1933 he assisted Norman Carter in preparing cartoons for stained-glass windows called Sheep Country, and two murals for the former Rural Bank building in Martin Place, Sydney. In 1935 Harvey and Arthur Murch founded the School of Decorative Arts, situated at the corner of Liverpool and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney.
  Harvey worked as an art teacher at the North Sydney Technical College and the National Art School in Sydney
  
  Reference:
  ‘E.A. Harvey’, Design and Art Australia online. http://www.daao.org.au/bio/edmund-arthur-harvey/biography/? (accessed 26 November, 2012)
  
  Margaret Coen met Harvey at night classes at the Royal Art Society. According to Meg Stewart, Harvey’s portrait of Coen was painted in a studio in a condemned building next to Pfahlert’s Hotel overlooking Wynyard Park in Margaret Street, Sydney in 1932. Margaret Coen was in her early 20s when the portrait was done and was struggling to earn a living in commercial art as well as attending night art classes
  
  Reference:
  Autobiography of my mother / Meg Stewart. rev. ed. Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2007, p.180-182
  
  The painting was a finalist in the 1932 Archibald Prize competition.
  
  Harvey also exhibited it in a 1933 solo show at the Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, and also at a Society of Artists exhibition. The Sydney Morning Herald of 17 May 1933, p.8 described the painting as a 'technical triumph, very much in the [GW] Lambert tradition.'
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Assignee of Edmund Arthur Harvey
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Published Information
  Published in: Autobiography of my mother / Meg Stewart. rev. ed. Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2007
• General note
  
  Keywords:
  Cohen
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower right hand corner
• Name
  Coen, Margaret, 1909-1993
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  artists
  portraits
  oil paintings
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8955071

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