THE RAIN CLOUD, 1931
ETHEL SPOWERS
colour linocut on paper
20.5 x 26.0 cm (image)
23.0 x 30.0 cm (sheet)
signed, dated, inscribed with title and numbered below image: The Rain Cloud 5/30 E. L. Spowers – 1931
Private collection
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in November 1984
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 – 31 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)
Australian Paintings, Colonial/Impressions/Early Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 October – 16 November 1984, cat. 75 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)
’Gladys Owen and Ethel Spowers. Lino–cuts, Wood–cuts, and Water Colours’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 6 December 1932, p. 4 (another example)
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES16, p. 171 (illus., another example)
Noordhuis–Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers & Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, p. 78 (another example)