• Title
  [Portrait of an Aborigine], 1895 / by Oscar Fristrom
• Creator
  Oscar Fristrom, 1856-1918.
• Call number
  V/132
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1895
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  456925
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 charcoal drawing - 45 x 62 cm. (sight); 55 x 75 cm. in mount
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Born in Sweden and arrived in Brisbane in 1884. He became an Associate in the firm of Hutchison, Fristrom and Company (Elite Photographic Company) and a foundation member of the Qld Art Society, 1887. He helped form the New Society of Art in 1904 and became its first president. He is best known for his portraits of Aborigines.
  
  References:
  Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  No title on work. Title taken from Mitchell catalogue
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated by the artist
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8815458

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