TUG OF WAR, 1933
ETHEL SPOWERS
colour linocut on paper
21.0 x 29.0 cm (image)
24.0 x 33.0 cm (sheet)
inscribed with title and numbered lower left: Tug of War 2/50
signed and dated lower right: E. L. Spowers 1933
Private collection
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Colour Prints and Contemporary Oils, Redfern Gallery, London, 1 June – 29 July 1933, cat. 34 (another example)
Contemporary Group Exhibition, Farmer’s Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 24 October – 4 November 1933, cat. 84 (another example)
Exhibition of Pictures by Ethel Spowers, Everyman’s Library, Melbourne, 28 November – 9 December 1933, cat. 20 (another example)
Lino–Cuts 1936, Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 48 (another example)
Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 25 July 1936, cat. 11 (another example)
Exhibition of Modern Lino–Cuts, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 30 March – 19 April 1939, cat. 127 (another example)
French and English Colour Prints, Redfern Gallery, London, 29 November – 30 December 1939, cat. 141 (another example)
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 167 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 86)
Melbourne Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, then touring to: University Art Museum, Queensland; Newcastle Regional Gallery, New South Wales; McClelland Gallery, Victoria; and Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 1981 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, n.p., another example)
Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992; 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, Auckland, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 86 (another example)
Spowers & Syme, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 August 2021 – 12 February 2022, then touring to: Western Plains Cultural Centre, New South Wales, 26 February – 29 May 2022; Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 16 July – 16 October 2022; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 3 December 2022 – 12 February 2023; and QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, 11 March – 4 June 2023 (another example)
’Colour Prints and Paintings. Measure of a Medium’, The Morning Post, London, 3 June 1933, p. 6 (another example)
Streeton, A., ’Prints and Paintings. Three New Shows. Miss Spowers’s Art’, The Argus, Melbourne, 28 November 1933, p. 9 (another example)
Coppel, S., Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1992, p. 21 (another example)
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. ES25, pp. 174, 175 (illus., another example)
Noordhuis–Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers & Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 81, 92 (another example)