Phillip Street, 1929 / by Adelaide Perry

SV/291

fonds

1929

Graphic Materials, Prints

1043510

1 print - engraving - 25.4 x 17.6 cm

Adelaide Perry (1891-1973), influential and admired painter, printmaker and teacher, studied at the National Gallery schools under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin. She exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society and was awarded the National Gallery of Victoria traveling scholarship in 1920. In Sydney by 1926, Perry was a member of the Society of Artists and a founder of the Contemporary Group. In the early 1930s she established the Adelaide Perry Art School in Bridge Street.

The scene shows 170-178 Phillip Street in the centre from a high vantage point through an open window, looking south along Phillip Street to King Street. The portico of St James Church is visible centre right, where the tram line swings into King St. The dogmen, shown along the right side of the image, could be involved in the construction or demolition of a building on the western side of Phillip Street.

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years.
Copyright holder:: assignee of Adelaide Perry
Approval for reproduction required:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Unsigned, pencil inscription on right margin of image '378-119'. Inscription on verso of original frame mount: '"Phillip Street - 1929" Collection of National Gallery of Australia. Illustrated - Art & Australia Vol. 33 No. 2 Summer 1995 P. 233'. Print and typescript label attached: 'Atarmon Galleries (Artlovers) 479 Pacific Highway, Artarmon, N.S.W. Telephone 42.0321. It is important that this label should never be destroyed. The evidence it bears of the registered stock number may, in future, prove to be of very great value for the purposes of identification and authenticity. Artist: Adelaide Perry. Title: "City Landscape" Woodcut (Lino) Size: 10 x 7 ins.'