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Nillumbik Shire Council
Work on paper - Print (etching), Graham FRANSELLA, Beach I (figure), 1985
A finalist in the Shire of Eltham Art Awards in 1985. Born in Harrow, England, Graham Fransella studied at the Bradford School of Art, Yorkshire. He came to Australia in 1975. Graham Fransella lives and works in Melbourne and is represented by galleries across Australia.Fransella is an artist (printmaker) of national significance. “A feature of Fransella’s art is that it has an immediate visual simplicity, sometimes possessing the lucidity of graffiti-like directness, but this is attained through the most complex and intricate means. The surface on which he works is the arena in which he performs with an endless layering of marks, surfaces and signs. It seems that he surrenders to an intuitive process, one in which chance serves as an active collaborator. Ultimately his practice engages with the theory of the artist’s subconscious being allowed unbridled freedom of expression.” Sasha Grishin AM FAHA, in 'Gorgeous simplicity in signature themes: Graham Fransella', Sydney Morning Herald, April 5, 2014This etching depicts a busy and carefree day at the beach in bright colours of red and blue. The figures are drawn with spontaneity and simplicity, which is characteristic of Fransella's style. Figures are positioned in states of relaxation or bounce around beach scenes in joyful exuberance. eltham art award, etching, print, beach, figures -
Friends of Ballarat Botanical Gardens History Group
Work on paper - Archival, Notes from PROV 1921-1987 by John Garner, Ballarat Botanical Gardens History
Ballarat Botanical Gardens History. Archival, Notes from PROV 1921-1987 by John Garner.john garner collection, ballarat botanical gardens, history, gardens, ballarat -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Painting - Vessel - Steamship, Mike McCrea (artist), ca 1985
This is one of a pair of paintings by artist Mike McCrea, created when he was in Warrnambool in 1985. The painting was framed and sold by Patana Galleries, Paton Place, Manly Vale, NSW. It was later purchased by athe company of Master Mariners of Australia and who donated the pair to Flagstaff Hill. The pair of paintings are significant for their association with steamships and the Master Mariners of Australia group. The paintings represent a time in local history when many steamships were sailing the coast and transporting passengers and goods.Painting; timber framed oil painting with the image of a cargo steamship off the coast of Warrnambool. Artist is Mike McCrea. Framed by Patana Galleries, Manly Vale, NSW. Hand written, "Red. No. 390 A" Sticker "61"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, painting, mic mccrea, patana galleries, master mariners of australia, steamship -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Drawing - Property sketches, Frank Gordon Real Estate, 1990s
Property sketches done for Frank Gordon Real Estate in the 1990s. 37 Poolman Street built environment - domestic, built environment - commercial, frank gordon real estate, poolman street -
Hawthorn Historical Society
Drawing - Property Illustration, 21 Burwood Avenue, Hawthorn East, 1999
'After training as a Cartographic Draftsman within the mining industry, I worked as a property illustrator for real estate firms in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne for 23 years from 1983. I initially photographed houses with a Polaroid camera and made a 'thumbnail' sketch while there. The photos were used to scale off a sketch in pencil and then that sketch was overlaid with drafting film and the 'pen and ink' completed. The pens I used were the Rotring ‘Rapidigraph’ drafting pens. The ink was also made by Rotring (German).The film was ‘Rapidraw’, polyester drafting film, double matte. It takes a very fine line and doesn’t bleed. As well as house sketches, there were often floor plans and site plans ordered. Aerial sketches were ordered when the property needed an overall view.' (Margaret Picken, 2020)This property illustration is one of a series created by Margaret Picken for a range of real estate agents in Melbourne between c. 1983 and c. 2006. Each work is signed and dated by the artist.Gift of Margaret Picken, 2020Pen and ink property illustration on drafting film of 21 Burwood Avenue, Hawthorn East by Margaret Picken.21 Burwood Avenue, Haw E, Margaret Picken '99. Woodards - Hawthorn.artist - margaret picken 1950- -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Textile - Decorated Cover
Black cover with embroidered flowers . Lined with blue material. Bound with black cord looped on two front corners. Probably used to cover a small item.handcrafts, needlework -
Friends of Ballarat Botanical Gardens History Group
Work on paper - Undated Leaflet on Ballarat's Begonias, All About Begonias in Ballarat
john garner collection, ballarat botanical gardens, gardens, ballarat, begonias -
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Painting, John OLSEN, Wattletree and the Clarendon Hill, n.d
Gift of Mack Jost, 1995 -
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Painting, RUBIN, Victor, Vendetta II, 1986
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Wangaratta Art Gallery
Painting, Mary Watson, The Buckland River, 1988
Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of the Wangaratta Y's Men's Club.A river landscape painted with oils in shades of green, blue, brown, and grey.Obverse: MARY WATSON/ (bottom right corner) WINNER - PAIR SMALL PAINTINGS/ 1988 WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ Presented By WANGARATTA Y'S MEN'S CLUB/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, mary watson, painting, landscape, buckland river -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Textile - FOSTER AND WILSON COLLECTION: WALL-HANGING
Brown oval cardboard with a picture of fairies, rabbits and an elf. The 3 rabbits and the elf are holding hands and dancing. Two of the fairies are sitting on the grass and clapping hands. The third on is standing against a tree playing a flute. They are in the forest with a stream, white flowers and some toadstools. The picture is in greens, pinks, browns and white. At each side of the picture is a 16 point star worked in yellow/green crochet thread. At the top and bottom is a pink 16 point star worked in pink. Holes have been punched in the card for the thread to go through. At the top is a loop for hanging. Written on the back: Eileen Wilson.cottage, miners, wall-hanging, foster & wilson collection, wall-hanging -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Painting - Picture, 1920
Framed Print - Picture of a girl dressed in white with blue scarf - in wooden frame. See Supplementary File for NA248.illustrations, prints -
Camberwell Historical Society
Drawing (series) - Architectural drawing, 7 Broadway, Camberwell, 2002
artist, architectural drawings, margaret picken, camberwell, housesartist, architectural drawings, margaret picken, camberwell, houses -
Kew Historical Society Inc
Textile - Household Textile, Supper Cloth
Embroidered and lace edged white linen supper cloth. household textiles, table linen, lace -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Painting - Painting - Water Colour
Glunkler was interned in Camp 3Water colour of two rows of huts. Each row has eight huts with the windows open. There is a single gum tree in the centre between the two rows and some tree in the background beyond a fence. Small gardens with stone edging are around the huts.Glunkler 1943 -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Textile - Tape Lace in large illustrated envelope
White tape lace on a card which is enclosed in a large illustrated envelope. The mid 19th century 'Renaissance Lace' is wound around cardboard which is in the large envelope. The lace depicts five petaled daisies with an eyelet on each side. The envelope is illustrated with drawings of snowdrops. It opens on the front with small snowdrops drawn around the square opening. On the right hand top corner there is a drawing of mountains with a village in the valley.'Snow-Bleach Embroidery' Man. in Switzerland. Guaranteed to retain its Snow-Whiteness. 'All Cotton' No. 83177 20yds E600handcrafts, lacemaking, documents, envelopes -
Hawthorn Historical Society
Drawing - Property Illustration, 46 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, 1993
'After training as a Cartographic Draftsman within the mining industry, I worked as a property illustrator for real estate firms in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne for 23 years from 1983. I initially photographed houses with a Polaroid camera and made a 'thumbnail' sketch while there. The photos were used to scale off a sketch in pencil and then that sketch was overlaid with drafting film and the 'pen and ink' completed. The pens I used were the Rotring ‘Rapidigraph’ drafting pens. The ink was also made by Rotring (German).The film was ‘Rapidraw’, polyester drafting film, double matte. It takes a very fine line and doesn’t bleed. As well as house sketches, there were often floor plans and site plans ordered. Aerial sketches were ordered when the property needed an overall view.' (Margaret Picken, 2020)This property illustration is one of a series created by Margaret Picken for a range of real estate agents in Melbourne between c. 1983 and c. 2006. Each work is signed and dated by the artist.Gift of Margaret Picken, 2020pen and ink architectural drawing on drafting film.46 RIVERSDALE RD HAW Margaret Picken ~96 WOODARDS - GLEN IRISartist - margaret picken 1950- -
Federation University Art Collection
Work on paper - Bookplate, ‘Ex Libris Edwin Jewell’
After a quiet period, interest in bookplates in Australia began to increase in the early 1970s, Entrepreneurial art and book collectors such as Edwin Jewell and others commissioned multiple Bookplate designs from a range of well known fine artists. At a 1997 meeting in Melbourne of the Ephemera Society of Australia Edwin Jewell and others announced the formation of the Australian Bookplate Society. The society was instrumental in promoting the art of the bookplate through establishment of the Australian Bookplate Design competition.A nude woman stands side-on on a platform reading a book.bookplate, printmaking, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, life drawing -
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment Unit History Room
Painting - Portrait, Lt-Col L G Coleman
Lt-Col Coleman was Commanding Officer of 4/19 Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment from 1960 to 1962One of a collection of portraits of former Commanding Officers of the RegimentFramed oil painting of Lt-Col L G Coleman portrait, coleman -
Castlemaine Art Museum
Painting, Rupert Bunny, Girl and dog, c. 1938
Gift of James McMahon, 1993 -
Ararat Gallery TAMA
Textile, Frances Burke, Spider Orchid (mat), c. 1955
Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles Australia’s most influential and celebrated textile designer of the mid-20th century, Frances Burke (1904-1994), employed Australian native flora, garden flowers, marine subjects, Indigenous culture and increasingly, abstract motifs in her stunning modern fabrics. A confident, determined designer and businesswoman; Burke made the shift from fine art to design in 1937. While she began by designing dress fabrics for Melbourne’s fashionable Georges Department store, printing them on linen using lino blocks, she was an early adopter of the screen-printing process and during the war years began printing on cotton. Burke’s furnishing fabrics took their place in influential modern buildings Australia-wide through collaborations with leading architects and interior designers. They included Robin Boyd’s 1949 House of Tomorrow, Roy Grounds’ Quamby flats, Guilford Bell’s Royal Hayman Island Resort for Ansett Airlines, and Yuncken, Freeman Brothers, Griffiths and Simpson’s Canberra Civic Centre Theatre. In the post-war period, Burke made regular trips to the United States and Europe, on her return advising homeowners and manufacturers on the latest trends in products, colours and home design in lectures and interviews. At New Design her fabric showroom and interior design consultancy Burke introduced furniture by emerging designers Clement Meadmore and Grant Featherston in the early 1950s and presented local and imported homewares, mostly from the United States. She was enthusiastic about the convenient and comfortable lifestyle experienced by ordinary American women. Her fabrics and advice were regularly featured in Australian Home Beautiful, Australian House and Garden and the newspapers of the day. Some of Burke’s designs had remarkable longevity. Tiger Stripe (1938) for example, continued to be produced in a wide range of colours until 1970 and Crete (1946) remained a popular choice for interiors into the 1960s. Drawing from a rich variety of sources including Indigenous culture in Goanna (c.1954) and Pacific Island tapa cloth designs in Bird and Tree (1940), Burke also looked to Japan in designs such as Plum Blossom (1948) and Zen (1965). She loved exploring the potential of native flora, seen in designs including Waratah (1955) and Flannel Flower (1955), while garden flowers were the source for many other designs including Belladonna (1940), Periwinkle (n.d.) and Rose (1947). Burke’s clever interplay of a single striking printed colour with lively gestural lines revealing the white base fabric, gave her designs a vibrancy that characterised the optimistic post-war era. This can be seen in Burke’s fabrics for Hayman Island including Angel Fish and Seapiece (both 1949) which expressed the freshness and excitement of the luxurious new tropical resort and led to further commissions. Burke’s three decades in business (1937-1970) were an unparalleled success in the story of Australian design. Her fabrics have been collected by the NGA, the Powerhouse Museum, NGV, RMIT Design Archives and Sydney Living Museums in addition to Ararat Gallery TAMA. Written by Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Work on paper - Photograph HMAS Curlew
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Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Drawing - Drawing - Mary Malseed, Betty Vivian, None, n.d
Drawing of Mary Malseed, sitting on a chair, sketching. She is wearing dark green trousers, lime green jumper, red scarf, tan shoesFront: 'B. Vivian' - grey lead Back: Holland's Picture Framing sticker -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Work on paper (collection) - College of Civil Aviation Air Pilot's Navigation Second Class, College of Civil Aviation Air Pilot's Navigation Paper 2ND class Nav. No.1 to 4
College of Civil AviationPapers 1 to 4Notes for 2nd class navigator course -
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Mixed media, Kerrie LESTER, Life wasn't meant to be easy, 1978
Purchased through the Horsham Art Gallery Trust Fund, 1978 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Drawing, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Geelong – 7 1/2o left hand frog", 1943
Used in tramway power supply overhead.Yields information about the details of a the point frog used in the overhead in Geelong. Similar equipment used in Ballarat and Bendigo.Blueprint of SEC drawing No. GE-T6-7380 "Geelong – 7 1/2o left-hand frog", dated 31/1/1943. Details of a the point frog used in the overhead in Geelong. Similar equipment used in Ballarat and Bendigo.Has “107” in biro in top right hand corner. Has "Recorded in Drawing" office stamp on rear.overhead, trolley wire, equipment -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Work on paper (item) - Bristol 170 (Freighter/Wayfarer) Performance, Certificate of Inspection Auto Coarsening System
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Camberwell Historical Society
Drawing (series) - Architectural drawing, 196 Highfield Road, Camberwell, 2000
artist, architectural drawings, margaret picken, camberwell, housesartist, architectural drawings, margaret picken, camberwell, houses -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Drawing, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Proposed Box Car", Sep. 1937
Print of drawing R4691, "Proposed Box Car" - with end and central doors, high floor - streamliner approach. Gives side elevation and floor plan.trams, tramways, sw6 class, w5 class, bogie trams, new tramcars, tramcar construction, proposals -
Federation University Art Collection
Painting - Portrait, Noirin Wojciechowski, "Marian" by Noirin Wojciechowski, 2012
Noirin Wojciechowski was undertaking a Bachelor of Creative arts (Honours) and the University of Ballarat Arts Academy when this work was created. This item is part of the Federation University Art Collection. The Art Collection features over 2000 works and was listed as a 'Ballarat Treasure' in 2007.Framed painting of a girl in a green jumper. art, artwork, wojciechowski, portrait, available, noirin wojciechowski, green