152546
- TitlePicnic at The Rocks, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Garrison Church and Lower Fort Street from Observatory Hill, 1952 by Roland Wakelin
- Creator
- Call numberML 1169
Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, North Wall, no. 64 - Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1952 - Type of material
- Reference code152546
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description1 painting - 71 x 89.2 cm. - in wooden frame, 87 x 105 cm. (made by Jim Crofts Framing Studio, Bondi Junction, 1997) - oil on canvas
- Copying ConditionsIn copyright:
Copyright holder:: Estate of Roland Wakelin
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Estate of Roland Wakelin - General note
Wakelin painted the Sydney Harbour Bridge in several major works, including two from the late-1920s (now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Queensland Art Gallery (the latter sold at Sotheby's Fine Australian Paintings Sale, Melbourne, 22 August 1994, lot 120). A later work from a similar vantage point to 'Picnic at Ths Rocks' is dated 1958 and is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (illus. in The Sydney Harbour Bridge 1932-1982: a golden anniversary celebration / Ursula Prunster. Sydney: Angus & Robertson in assoc. with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982, no. 39, p. 79)
A photograph by Robert Pearce from a similar viewpoint appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 1998, p. 3
Digital order no:a1528074 - Signatures / Inscriptions
Signed and dated in black brushpoint lower right 'R. Wakelin '52' - Topic
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