• Title
  Item 01: Portrait of Florence Rodway, 1910 / Norman Carter
• Call number
  ML 339
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 242
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1910
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  837008
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 36 1/8 x 24 in.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: Norman Carter's assignee
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project 2008-2009
• General note
  
  This three-quarter portrait shows signs of having been cut down.
  
  A full length painting of Florence Rodway by Norman Carter, titled `A Low-toned Harmony', was awarded the Bronze Medal, Salon des Artistes Francais, Paris, 1913.
  
  Gestural brushstrokes, lighting and shading, appear to be similar in the three-quarter work, described here, and in the full length portrait, `A Low-toned Harmony' reproduced in The Salon (1913).
  
  `A Low-toned Harmony' was exhibited in Tho Royal Art Society's thirty-first annual exhibition in August 1910. In the Sydney Morning Herald, the sitter, Florence Rodway, is described as wearing `a dark mauve walking costume' with one `gauntleted hand resting at arm's length on the top of her parasol ...' Reference:
  Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 1910, p. 6
  
  The current location of `A Low-toned Harmony' is not known. It is possible that this three quarter portrait has been cut down from the original full length portrait, `A Low-toned Harmony', possibly by the artist himself before presenting it to the Library collection in 1962.
  
  A reproduction and description of `A Low-toned Harmony' is found in:
  `Norman Carter, painter', by Leslie Beer, in The Salon : being the journal of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales; volume 2, number 4, November 1913, pp. 240-246
  
  Copy Print : ML 339
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:Album ID : 888233
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed `Norman Carter' in lower right hand corner. Undated
• Subject
  Women artists--Australia--20th century.
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Glorious Days - National Museum of Australia
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16756773

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