Saga : a protest in linocuts by the Worker artists, Sydney, N.S.W., 1933

PXD 816

fonds

1933

Graphic Materials, Prints

403049

Prints - 22 linocuts on paper, mounted separately. Publication appears to have been disbound: binding holes and gutter damage is visible on left margin of each sheet - each sheet approx 25 x 37 cm.

3. Saga! A protest in linocuts by the Worker Artists Sydney NSW 1933 [title page] / John Harvey
5. [Untitled - War Machine] / George Finey
6. School / John Harvey
7. [Untitled] / Stan Clements
8. Bank Closed / Frank Beck
9. [Untitled - Capitalism's control of politics, note the caricatures of Lang, Mussolini and Hitler ?] / John Harvey and Clive Guthrie
10. [Man in chains] / Geoff Litchfield
11. [Lock-out] / Bond
12. [The Church] / Adrienne Parkes
13. No vacancies [unemployment] / John Harvey
14. [Silos and ships] / Bond
15. The Daily Dope / John Harvey
16. [Prisoner] / John Harvey
17. [Eviction] / McDonnell
18. [Tramp] / Clive Guthrie
19. [Polic attacking demonstrators] / John Harvey
20. [Demonstrators] / Frank Beck
21. [Facism & Capitalism] / John Harvey
22. [Orators] / Stan Clements
23. [Socialism v. Capitalism] / John Harvey
24. All power to the workers [street march] / Geoff Litchfield
25. [Worker breaking his chains] / Geoff Litchfield

Signed, in pencil, beneath each image.
Numbering starts at no. 3, which is the title page, and then continues from no. 5 through to no. 25. It is not clear if this is original numbering or Library numbering.
The Workers' Art Club appears to have been established in 1933 - ca. April - in broad sympathy with the aims of the Communist Party of Australia, who reported its activities in its newspaper "The Workers' Weekly". Its manifesto can be found in its magazine "The Workers' Art Magazine" April 1933 (Mitchell Library: Q331.8506/1)

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