• Title
  [Sydney Public Library, 1931] / oil painting by Normand Henry Baker
• Creator
  Normand Henry Baker, 1908-1955
• Call number
  DG 354
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 207
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1931
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  446603
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - visible image 91.5 x 79.5 cm. (inside frame)
  
• Collection history
  Purchased from Normand Baker's mother, Mrs H. [Millicent] Baker
• Scope and Content
  This painting depicts the reading room of the Public Library building on the corner of Bent and Macquarie Streets, which closed in 1942.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Normand Baker's assignee
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  No title on work. This painting was exhibited in the Royal Art Society of NSW annual exhibition in 1931, with the title Sydney Public Library. It was noted as being for sale at 200 guineas.
  The painting was favourably noted in the Sydney Morning Herald review of the exhibition on 1 August 1931.
• General note
  
  The painting was also exhibited in the Art Gallery of NSW exhibition of 150 years of Australian Art, in 1938. It was also reproduced in Art in Australia, in March 1938, in an issue which celebrated the exhibition.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  books
  desks
  librarians
  libraries
  reading rooms
  
• Place
  Australian Subscription Library (cnr Bent & Macquarie Streets, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8953040

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