• Title
  Sydney Harbour from North Head / Theo Grimanes
• Creator
  Theo Grimanes
• Call number
  V1/Har/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Before 1954
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Posters
• Reference code
  456827
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 poster - 25.6 x 35.8 cm. - colour
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  While little is known about this artist, the claim that Theo Grimanes was a pseudonym of maritime artist John Allcot is certainly incorrect. Theo Grimanes (1887-1954) was born on the Greek island of Andros. At the age of twelve he ran away to sea, spending some years working aboard sailing ships and British tramp vessels (ships not deployed on regular trade routes, but contracting for individual cargo shipments). He arrived in Australia with his friend John Allcot and continued his seagoing career on Australian coastal vessels. His name appears as Theodore Emanuel Grimanes in the National Archives of Australia naturalization index in 1916 and 1929. A painting of SS Tambar by Grimanes at the Australian National Maritime Museum was painted in 1914 whilst he was working onboard the vessel for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company. He attended art classes in Sydney and painted many ship portraits and rural scenes on commission. While a bosun with the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company in the 1930s Grimanes visited Allcot's studios in Sydney to watch him work and hear his anecdotes about life at sea. His death, listed in New South Wales registry indexes in 1953, is dated 1954 by his family.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Former catalogue title "Harbour from Clifton Gardens" from framer's label on reverse. Retitled after research by Curator, Sydney Harbour: Seldom Scene, 2007
  Dimensions from Mitchell Library Pictures card catalogue
  Digital order no:a1528094
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed "T Grimanes" at lower right
• Topic
  harbours
  headlands
  vessels (watercraft)
  
• Place
  Georges Head (N.S.W.)
  North Head (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Harbour : Seldom Scene
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3247752

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