Series 04: Margaret Barr sketches, sketchbooks, plans and photographs, 1918-1970s

PXD 1289

series

1918-1970s

Graphic Materials, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Drawings, Photographs

421255

2 architectural drawings - 34 x 56 cm.
101 drawings - 53 x 75 cm. or smaller (sketches); 30 x 24 cm. (sketchbook); 21 x 17 cm. (botany book) - sketches using pencil, pen, watercolour, ink wash or a combination, some with fabric samples attached, also includes collages. Includes a sketchbook and a botany book
5 ephemera items (handbills) - 25.5 x 22 cm. - mounted on card
12 photographic prints - 50 x 61 cm. or smaller - gelatin silver, some mounted on card

Chiefly sketches of costumes for dance productions but also 2 architectural plans for Barr's French's Forest weatherboard cottage, dated 1957. Includes Barr's 1918 school botany book.

Includes 5 placards advertising performance of "The Breaking of the Drought", Sydney Dance-Drama Group Benefit for Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, Thursday 4 September [1958], comprising handbills pasted on card together with production photographs.

2 silver gelatin photoprints (Margaret Barr seated in a dance studio, and multiple exposure photograph of a dancer), 1970s?

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years (applies to artistic works where creator died after 1955)
Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.

Individual sketches and plans are unnumbered.

Placards advertising "The Breaking of the Drought" are outsize material originally accompanying other photographs of this work at PXE 1446/Box 1.

Some of the sketches titled and inscribed
Sketchbook has inscription from Fred Manner to Barr, dated Christmas 1939