Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Paddington, New South Wales, 1986 [picture] / Joyce McGrath
- Bib ID:
- 4593916
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- McGrath, Joyce, 1925-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1986
- 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 101.5 x 76.3 cm., in gilded frame.
- Biography/History:
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Australian born, Peggy Glanville-Hicks achieved an international reputation as an opera composer and for her activities on behalf of contemporary music and musicians. She was also an eminent musical arts critic, writing for major publications such as Musical Quarterly and the New York Herald Tribune--Acquisition documentation.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on inscriptions and acquisition documentation.
- Inscriptions: "Title: Peggy Glanville Hicks, O.A.M., Artist: Joyce McGrath ..."--Printed on label attached to verso; "J. McGrath"--Signed in medium, lower right corner.
- The portrait was an entry for the Portia Geach Art Prize. The sitter is painted at her home in Paddington, Sydney, with a Greek rug in the background from her former Athens home. She is wearing her characteristic magnifying glass and a circular brooch given to her by choreographer John Butler.
- Condition: Fine horizontal line across centre, circular crackling across centre.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137923668
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the artist, Joyce McGrath, 2009.
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1986
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