"Klondyke" Propty [i.e. Proprietary ?] Mine, Broken Hill, 1926 / J. C. Goodhart

V/221

fonds

1926

Graphic Materials, Prints

915427

1 print - etching with aquatint - image 29 x 22.5cm, sheet 37 x 28.3 cm

Joseph Goodhart (1875-1952) painter, pastellist, and etcher, had no formal training as an artist but was a draper by trade. He worked in oils, watercolours and pastels until he was 50 when he took up etching, resulting from a meeting with the artist and etcher John Goodchild. Goodhart set up his first press within his fitting shop in Broken Hill.

A large number of his works depict mining life around Broken Hill, New South Wales, between the 1920s and early 1930s. He is also known for a series of prints recording historical landmarks of Tasmania.

Reference:
Joseph Christian Goodhart / curator, Gary Corbett. [Broken Hill, N.S.W. : Broken Hill City Art Gallery, 1991?]

Etching shows image of an entrance to a mine shaft. Two figures are pictured hoisting a wooden support up through the shaft above a railway track.

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955

Titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin

Slight foxing to margins