Robert Emerson Curtis collection of drawings and photographs including Sydney, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Gladesville Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Newcastle Steel Works, Broken Hill mines, and commercial designs for murals and posters

PXD 688

fonds

1930-1970

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Prints, Photographs

89511

Drawings - 85 drawings
Prints - 4 prints (1 etching - 3 lithographs)
Photographs - 7 photoprints & 1 photonegative

Robert Emerson Curtis (1898- ) was born in England, and arrived in NSW in 1924. He established himself primarily as a commercial artist, who specialised in documentary illustration. He drew, for example, the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, worked for B.H.P. and also documented projects such as the Sydney Opera House and the Gladesville Bridge. He was also commissioned to design murals and posters.
This material was acquired from the artist's collection

This collection comprises 37 record series arranged by subject and geographical location. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.

Many of the drawings have been re-inscribed over a number of years by Robert Emerson Curtis. He has written over many of his original inscriptions, or repeated the information elsewhere on the drawing - usually on the reverse. These duplications have generally not been recorded