THE LAWN MOWER, c.1931 – 32
DORRIT BLACK
colour linocut on paper
19.5 x 13.0 cm (image)
25.0 x 16.0 cm (sheet)
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: The Lawn Mower 1/50 Dorrit Black.
Private collection
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in April 1986
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne, 5 – 16 April 1932, cat. 2 (another example)
Fourth Exhibition of British Lino–cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 17 May – 10 June 1933, cat. 44 (another example)
British Lino–cuts (Mostly in Colour), Hastings Public Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex, 9 May – 9 June 1936, cat. 54 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, Adelaide, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 2 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 56 (another example)
Colour Linocuts from the Grosvenor School, The Ward Gallery, Sydney, 26 March – 19 April 1980, cat. 42 (another example)
Australian Art, Colonial to Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 9 – 25 April 1986, cat. 85 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1992; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1992 – 1 March 1993; National Art Gallery, Wellington, 19 March – 16 May 1993; and Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 22 (another example)
The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 10A
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 June – 8 September 2019 (another example)
Young, E., ’Contemporary Art Society Exhibition’, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 2 December 1952, p. 9
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, MacMillan and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L17, pl. 23, pp. 59, 60 (illus., another example), 131
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB18, pp. 156, 157 (illus., another example)
Lock–Weir, T., Dorrit Black. Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 156, 157 (illus., another example), 202 (illus., another example)
Samuel, G., et al., Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2019, pp. 73, 74 (illus., another example)