Dorrit Black

(1891-1951)

The Acrobats, c.1928-29

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
The estate of the artist, Adelaide
Ruth Goble, the artist's niece
thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales

EXHIBITED
First Exhibition of British Lino-cuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 1929, cat. 36 (another example)
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1930, cat. 25 (another example)
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 22 (another example)
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 March - 1 April 1968 (another example)
Hand and Eye - a survey of artists' materials and techniques, Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition, various venues, 1970 (another example)
Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1992, cat. 18 (another example)
Modernism 1900-1950, prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 July - 25 September 1994 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1999, cat. 2 (another example)
Review: works by women from the permanent collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 Match - 4 June 1995 (another example)
Art Deco: from Sydney cinemas and pubs to skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 June - 5 September 1999 (another example)
Step Right Up, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, 10 October 2008 - 4 January 2009 (another example)
Australian Collection Focus: Colour Rhythm, Design - wood and linocuts of the 20s and 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 March - 11 July 2010 (another example)
Dorrit Black (1891-1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 2011, cat. 10 (another example)
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)

LITERATURE
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 September 1930, p. 7
Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, no. 8, pp. 23, 131 (illus., another example)
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, England, 1995, p. 152 (illus., another example), pl. 30, cat. DB 2
Susan Sheridan, Along the Faultlines, Sydney, 1995, back cover (illus., another example)
Printed images by Australian Artists 1885 - 1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 205 (illus., another example)
Helen Campbell, Colour, rhythm, design: wood and lino cuts of the 20s and 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, pp. 2, 23 (illus., another example)
Deborah Edwards, Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 178 (illus., another example), 310, 320
Susannah Smith, Look, August 2013, p. 14
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 143 (illus., another example), pp. 150-151 (illus., another example), 200 (illus., another example)

RELATED WORK
Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney