THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931
ETHEL SPOWERS
colour linocut
20.5 x 26.0 cm (image)
24.5 x 29.5 cm (sheet)
signed, dated, titled and numbered below image: The Rain Cloud. 13/30. E. L. Spowers - 1931 -
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibition of ... Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, 1 March – 1 April 1932, cat. 40 (another example)
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne, 5 – 16 April 1932, cat. 18 (another example)
Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 6 December 1932, cat. 9 (another example)
Exhibition of Colour Prints and Water Colours by Ethel Spowers, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 10 –25 July 1936, cat. 4 (another example)
‘Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers. Lino–cuts, Wood–cuts, and Water Colours’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1932, p. 4 (as ‘The Raincloud’)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in assoc. National Gallery of Australia, 1995, cat. ES16, p. 171 (illus., another example)
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra