Sketch portraits / May Gibbs

PXD 738/91-94

series

undated

Graphic Materials, Drawings

152760

Drawings - 2 drawings (pencil and wash) - image 21.5 x 16.5 cm., on mounts 30 x 25 cm.
Drawings - 1 drawing (pencil and wash) - 25.2 x 17.7 cm.
Drawings - 1 drawing (pencil and wash) - 21.5 x 16.2 cm., in wooden frame 33.5 x 28.5 cm.

91. [Full-face portrait of a lady wearing a necklace of beads]
92. [Profile portrait of a lady]
93. [Profile of male wearing a hat with a pipe in his mouth]
94. [Full-face portrait of lady wearing earrings]

Reproduction Restricted

No.93 probably a portrait of the artist Harry Weston -- see illustration `Society of Artists, Selection Committee, 1907' in The story of Australian art / by William Moore. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1934. Vol.1 (p.171) [Photograph avialable at: SPG/Society of Artists (BM) Mitchell Library]
Portraits possibly drawn ca. 1916 when May Gibbs set up her studio in Bridge Street, Sydney -- Reference: May Gibbs : mother of the gumnuts : her life and work / Maureen Walsh. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1985 (Vol.1, pp.90-94)

Titled and signed at lower edge of each drawing
"(Harry J. Western [i.e. Weston?], artist)" at lower edge (no.93)
"Marjorie Scott Waine?" in pencil on reverse of framed portrait (no.94)