Item - Wallace C. Wurth, CMG

ID UNSW P 1954/0326 (082351)
Artist Joshua SMITH (1905 - 1995)
Title Wallace C. Wurth, CMG
Alternate Titles
Category Painting
Medium oil on canvas
Materials oil pigments, canvas support
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 118.00
  Width 98.00
  Depth 0.00
  Other Original gilt plaster and timber frame
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location lower right
  Signed in orange brown pigment: Joshua Smith / 54
Produced  
  When 1954
  Where Australia
Style Realist
Subject Portrait
Credit Line Commissioned 1954
Description/Remarks    When this portrait was painted Wallace Charles Wurth (1896-1960) was the President of the NSW University of Technology, Kensington (1949-55); he later became UNSW's first Chancellor (1955-60).
Exhibition History 1954 Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales (01/01/1955 - 18/02/1955)
Bibliography
©Reproduced with permission.

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