SKATING, 1929
EVELINE SYME
colour linocut
12.0 x 15.5 cm (image)
16.0 x 18.0 cm (sheet)
signed lower right: EW Syme.
inscribed with title and edition lower left: Skating. 9/50
bears inscription lower right edge of sheet: SKATING
Isabel Hunter Tweddle, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Water Colours and Lino-Cuts by E. W. Syme, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 18 August – 1 September 1931, cat. 24 (another example)
British Lino-Cuts 1931 (Third Exhibition of British Lino–Cuts), Redfern Gallery, London, August 1931, cat. 22 (another example)
Exhibition of Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, March 1932, cat. 38 (another example)
Linocuts and Wood Engravings by E.W. Syme, Arts and Crafts Society's Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 16 May 1936, cat. 10 (another example)
Important Women Artists, Jim Alexander Gallery, Melbourne, August 1977 (another example)
Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 175 (another example)
Claude Flight and His Followers. The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, and touring, cat. 93 (another example)
Review: Works by Women From The Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 March – 5 June 1995 (another example)
Colour, Rhythm, Design – wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March – 11 July 2010 (another example)
Modern impressions: Australian prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September 2016 – January 2017 (another example)
Intrepid Woman: Australian Women Artists in Paris 1900 – 1950, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 6 January – 25 March 2018 (another example)
Becoming Modern: Australian Women Artists 1920 – 1950, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 18 May – 4 August 2019 (another example)
Spowers and Syme, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 August 2021 – 12 February 2022 (another example)
Dobson, M., Block–Cutting and Print–Making by Hand, Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London, 1930, p. 51 (illus., another example)
Streeton, A., 'Art Exhibitions', Argus, Melbourne, 18 August 1931, p. 8 (another example)
Bell, G., '20 Prints by Miss Syme', Sun–News Pictorial, Melbourne, 5 May 1936, p. 15 (another example)
Butler, R., and Deutscher, C., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 175, p. 89 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., Melbourne: Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's, Gardner Printing & Publishing, Victoria, 1981 (illus., another example)
Lebovic, J., Australian Women Printmakers, Sydney, 1988, cat. 108, pp. 2, 14 (illus., another example)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ESy 4, pp. 68, 180 (illus., another example)
Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, pl. 78, pp. 149 (illus., another example), 152, 196
Hylton, J., Modern Australian women: paintings & prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 52 (illus., another example), 56, 126
Butler, R., Printed images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 200 (illus., another example)
Campbell, H., Colour, Rhythm, Design – wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, p. 15 (illus., another example)
Samuel, G. (ed.), Cutting Edge. Modernist British Printmaking, Bloomsbury, London, 2019, pp. 72, 73 (illus., another example)
McLaren, J., and Tegart, L., Becoming Modern: Australian Women Artists 1920 – 1950, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2019, pp. 94 (illus., another example), 174
Noordhuis – Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers and Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 8 (illus., another example), 9, 93
Pryor, S., A pair of Melbourne artists from the 1930s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, The Canberra Times, Canberra, 24 July 2021 (illus., another example)
Watson, B., 'Public Works', The Weekend Australian, 18 - 19 September 2021, p. 8 (illus., another example)