• Title
  File 13: An Indian train journey / Peter Kingston and Jan Cork
• Creator
  Peter Kingston, 1943-2022
• Call number
  PXA 7725
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  2007-2008
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints, Photographs
• Reference code
  9677546
• Physical Description
  36 prints (1 box), includes 3 photographs - linocut, ink, typescript - sheets 30 x 30 cm, in wooden box 40 x 40 x 4 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Peter Kingston, Sydney painter, printmaker and cartoonist, was born in Sydney in 1943 and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from the University of New South Wales, where he studied architecture and arts. He was a Pop artist in the 1970s and has exhibited since 1978 in Sydney and New York. Kingston was also one of the key figures in Martin Sharp’s Yellow House. He was a fierce campaigner for Sydney’s heritage, including Luna Park, bush land near his Lavender Bay home or the ferries on Sydney Harbour. The Harbour, the bridge, the ferries, iconic buildings, and the bushy foreshores became dominant subjects in his later paintings. He has been included in several group exhibitions including the Dobell Drawing Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1993 and 2000, the Wynne Prize between 1995 and 2003, and the Sulman Prize between 1998 and 2001. He tutored in architecture at the University of Sydney and was artist in residence at Haefliger Cottage at Hill End, NSW in 1995. His work is held by major Australian galleries, libraries and museums, and internationally in Belgium, Los Angeles and Tokyo. He died in 2022.
  
  References: Australian Galleries https://australiangalleries.com.au/artists/peter-kingston/ (Accessed 17 January 2024)
  Design and Art Australia Online https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-kingston/biography/ (Accessed 17 January 2024)
• Collection history
  In the custody of Peter Kingston until his death in 2022.
• Scope and Content
  Unbound artists' book containing 36 linoprints (including print on front cover and prints attached to inside box base and cover) featuring elements of the train trip from Pondicherry to Ooty, India aboard the Nilgiri Express. Lino prints on Japanese mulberry paper using Sakura oil based inks tipped onto Arches France paper. Box by Ian Macleod.
  
  Contents:
  Box cover: Train (in black ink)
  
  Inside front of box: Call box (with publication statement)
  Numbered RC[Review Copy]1/2, signed by artist
  
  Bookwrap cover: Train (in mulberry ink)
  
  Title page: An Indian train journey / Peter Kingston
  RC1/2, signed by artist, 2008, Numbered 1
  
  Book prints: numbered 2-28
  All RC1/2, signed by artist, dated 2007-2008
  Numbers 13 and 14 titled at lower edge: At Runnymead Stop
  Number 25 titled at lower edge: After Tom Spence
  Number 26 titled at lower edge: Dr Pattingers Guest House - Pondicherry
  Number 27 titled (within print): Higginbothams Press, Sydney Australia, 2006-2007, Edition of 6, Review copy 1/2
  Number 28 titled (within print): An Indian Train Journey, Hor De Commerce, Peter Kingston 1/3
  
  Unnumbered print: Print featuring train with title An Indian Train Journey by Peter Kingston
  Photographs:
  Nilkiri [Nilgiri] Train. Photo Jan Cork 2007
  PK, Nilgiri Train. Photo Jan Cork 2007
  Photograph of small girl on Nilgiri train
  
  Tucked into the back of the wraparound are two further prints:
  Print of man on train with caption at lower edge: Not used in edition
  RC1/2, signed by artist, 2007
  Sheilas title page print in black and red ink
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: Peter Kingston
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  Title from first loose print. Other information taken from text on prints.
• General note
  
  See also: Similar edition at Call No. PXA 7742
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Acquired with the collections at Reference code 9677530
• Contributing Creator
  
  Higginbothams Press, Sydney, Australia, 2007. Text Jan Cork Peter Kingston
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Cork, Jan
  
• Subject
  Artists' books.
  Artists' books--New South Wales--Specimens.
  Linoleum block-printing, Australian.
  India--Description and travel.
  
• Place
  India--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21101989

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