Photographs, sketches, a sketchbook of sculptures and architectural drawings of a proposed house at Dee Why West, ca. 1930-1975 / L. R. Dadswell

PXD 1160

fonds

ca. 1930-1975

Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Drawings, Photographs

914665

1 sketchbook (30 sheets of sketches) - 25 x 27.5 cm.
107 drawings - pencil, ink, wash drawings - 50 x 60.5 cm. or smaller
26 architectural drawings - pencil, ink - 43.5 x 75.5 cm. or smaller
42 photographic prints - col., black and white - 34 x 27 cm. or smaller

Lyndon Raymond Dadswell (1908­1986), sculptor and technical college teacher, was born on 18 January 1908 at Stanmore, Sydney, elder child of Sydney-born parents Arthur Raymond Dadswell, accountant, and his wife Maysel Cobcroft, née Pidgeon. Educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore), Lyndon attended Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School (1924-25) and East Sydney Technical College (1926-29). Trained under Rayner Hoff, Dadswell moved away from an early interest in commercial art to specialise in sculpture and modelling. His student work, such as `Untitled Classical Relief’ (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney), reveals the strong reliance on British traditions shared by most Australian sculptors until the 1960s. This orientation was modified by European ideals of postwar reconstruction and Hoff’s notion of `modernising’ British classicism through the stylistic devices of art deco, in order to produce sculptures appropriate to a modern Australia

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dadswell-lyndon-raymond-12389 (accessed 25 July, 2012)

1 sketchbook, containing 30 pages of sketches in ink of planned sculptures

107 loose sketches in pencil, ink and wash. They are largely ideas for sculptures and include a child's drawing

26 architectural drawings, including preliminary sketches, of a planned house at Lot 1, 20 Dee Why West, July 1962 / by Henry Epstein

42 photographic prints (mostly black and white), ca. 1930-1975. Photographs are mostly of Lyndon Dadswell's sculptural work and include pictures of Queen Elizabeth II opening the Dadswell co-designed memorial to King George V and King George VI, Sydney's Sandringham Gardens in 1954. Photographers include Richard C. Blake, Max Dupain and others

Forms part of MLMSS 3001

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Some photographs are titled and dated on reverse