Item - Black glacier

ID UNSW P 1997/0762 CFA (089190)
Artist Elwyn Augustus LYNN (1917 - 1997)
Title Black glacier
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Category Painting
Medium mixed media on polyester
Materials acrylic, PVA, hessian, paper, jute on canvas on polyester support
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Measurements (cms)  
  Height 60.00
  Width 72.00
  Depth 8.00
  Other Frame: 62 x 74 x 10cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location verso
  Signed in black ink: Elwyn Lynn 24 April 1996
Produced  
  When 1996
  Where Australia, NSW, Sydney
Style Abstract Matter Painting
Subject Landscape
Credit Line Acquired from the College of Fine Arts Collection, 1990
Description/Remarks    An assembled matter painting divided into two at centre by a rolled cylinder bound with coloured jute and twine. The left side covered with unprimed canvas rolled at upper edge and splattered with white pigment. At lower left a small square of white -painted canvas bears a black-painted ladder shape; black marks extend onto background. The right side is painted black over wrinkled semi-set PVA to resemble a glacial tide.
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