Item - Cane farmer's house, North Queensland

ID UNSW P 1955/0048 (082278)
Artist Margaret OLLEY (1923 - 2011)
Title Cane farmer's house, North Queensland
Alternate Titles
Category Painting
Medium oil on canvas
Materials oil, canvas support
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 60.00
  Width 75.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Original frame: 76 x 91 x 5 cms
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location lower right corner within image
  Signed in dark blue pigment: OLLEY 55
Produced  
  When 1955
  Where Australia
Style Narrative
Subject Architecture
Credit Line Purchased 1955
Description/Remarks    Image depicts cottage on stilts in tropical garden. In original grey-painted timber period frame.
Exhibition History Escape Artists: Modernists in the Tropics, Cairns Regional Gallery and Tour: Qld, NSW & VIC., (03/05/1998 - 27/06/1999)
Margaret Olley & Donald Friend, S H Ervin Gallery & Tour, (09/11/2005 - 28/05/2006)
Bibliography France, C., Margaret Olley, Craftsman House, Roseville NSW Australia, 1990 & 2002, ill. Plate 9
ISBN 978-1877004186
Wilson, G., Escape Artists: Modernists in the Tropics, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns Qld Australia, 1998, ill.pg.101
ISBN 0 958685 2 7

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