Collection of preliminary sketches, chiefly 1900-1910 / by May Gibbs

PXD 738/1-34

series

chiefly 1900-1910, 1962

Graphic Materials, Drawings

153080

Drawings - 34 items (chiefly pencil sketches) - 20.5 x 25.5 cm. or smaller

1a-d. [Portrait sketches] ; Entrance to our school & Park Cottage ; Rather blue, 24-26 May 1900
2a-d. [Portrait sketches completed at Chelsea Polytechnic Institute, U.K. and diary notes], Jan 1901
3-24b. Includes portrait sketches, 5 July - 24 Oct 1901 and a series of fish and shell studies
25a-b. "Me and my new master" [Augustus John, night class-master at Chelsea Polytechnic] ; Sketch of John ...
26. "To prayers we go ..." / May Gibbs, 1910 [watercolour cartoon]
27. Beetles on lemon tree ..., 1962 [ink sketches and notes]
28-34. [Undated pencil sketches, ink drawings + ink and wash drawings]

"Me and my new master" Augustus John (No.25a.) reproduced in: May Gibbs : mother of the gumnuts : her life and work / Maureen Walsh. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1985 (Vol.1, p.68)
No.24 fragment of page only