Item 14: Mother and child, December 1945 / by Russell Drysdale

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December 1945

Graphic Materials, Drawings

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1 drawing - 35.5 x 25.0 cm - pen, ink and wash on paper

Known to his friends and family as Tas, Drysdale painted some of the most iconic landscapes of the Australian outback and in the 1940s his paintings and drawings enabled city people to see the devastating effect of drought on the land. During the spring of 1930, with a school friend, `Bunny’ Reed, Drysdale oversaw the shearing and farm work at Boxwood Park in his father’s absence, then worked for some months at Pioneer with his uncle Cluny Drysdale. He decided then to be a farmer, and settled on the family farm at Boxwood in the Riverina, however he lacked the necessary skills so he moved his family to Sydney, and focused on his career in art.

References:
Library correspondence file

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Russell Drysdale
Approval for reproduction required:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Russell Drysdale

Signed and dated 1945 lower right, inscribed 'With sincerest good wishes to you all. Bunny & Tass. Dec.'45' lower left