• Title
  Series 4: Plaster cast of Carrying euro, Arunta Tribe, for the bronze entrance door of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd. from a sculpture by Daphne Mayo
• Creator
  Daphne Mayo, 1895-1982
• Call number
  PM 166
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1940
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  1178270
• Physical Description
  1 cast - plaster, mounted on wood - 41.2 x 33.3 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Lilian Daphne Mayo, sculptor, was born in Balmain, Sydney, though spent the majority of her life in Brisbane. In 1914 she was awarded a travelling art scholarship which, after the delay of the outbreak of war, led her to study at the Royal College of Art in London and the Sculpture School of the Royal Academy of Arts. Returning to Brisbane in 1925, Mayo worked on a series of public commissions which included the Brisbane City Hall tympanum (1927–30), the Queensland Women’s War Memorial in Anzac Square (1929–32) and relief panels for the original chapel at Mount Thompson Crematorium (1934). Between 1938–39 Mayo travelled through Europe and North America to gain inspiration from new developments in artistic practice.
  
  When in 1940 the principal librarian of the Public Library of New South Wales, Wiliam Ifould, was selecting sculptors to produce bas reliefs for the bronze doors of the new Mitchell Library, he commissioned Daphne Mayo to produce all 18 panels for the eastern doors. Mayo's original sculptures, all depicting Aboriginal people, were cast by the manufacturing company Wunderlich in clay and plaster before they were cast in bronze.
  
  References:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/ (accessed 18 August 2015)
  A source of inspiration & delight : the buildings of the State Library of New South Wales since 1826 / David J. Jones. Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, c1988
• Scope and Content
  Plaster cast depicts man with a kangaroo slung over his shoulder
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled by cataloguer.
• Subject
  Women artists--Australia--20th century.
  Women artists--New South Wales--Sydney.
  Aranda (Australian people)
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  Sculpture, Australian--20th century.
  Mitchell Library (N.S.W.)--History.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE17684500

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