Cornish etchings / Robert Jacks

PXD 1625

fonds

1989

Graphic Materials, Prints

9661586

9 prints (1 box) - on sheets 56 x 45 cm, in box 58 x 46 cm - sugar-lift, relief, intaglio, and hard ground etchings, using colour inks

Robert Jacks AO (1943-2014) was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He is acknowledged as one of Australia's leading abstract artists. He studied at the Prahran Technical College and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, focusing first on sculpture and then painting and printmaking. The artist travelled to Canada and New York in the 1960s, then in 1978 became artist-in-residence at the University of Melbourne before moving to Sydney, where he taught at Sydney's College of the Arts. He returned to Melbourne in 1983 as artist in residence at his former college of Prahran where he taught until 1988. Jacks took his family to Cornwall for six months in 1988 where he taught at the Falmouth School of Art. In 1989, he purchased a property in Harcourt in rural Victoria, which finally became his permanent home and studio. Robert Jacks died in 2014.

References:
The Artist's books of Robert Jacks / essay and catalogue by Peter Anderson. Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009.

Design and Art Australia Online. "Robert Jacks", https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-jacks-1/personal_details/ ( Accessed 10 July 2023)

A portfolio artists book of eight individually titled etchings (image size, 32 x 25 cm) presented in a solander box with title label.

Frontispiece:
Robert Jacks, Cornish Etchings, 1989. Eight etchings and one fronttspiece [ie. frontispiece] printed by Diana Davidson and Peter Stevens at Sydney Print Studios in an Edition of Twelve with Two Artists proofs and Two printers proofs, 280 gsm, BFK Arches

1. Land's end
Numbered 11/12

2. Zennor
Numbered 11/12

3. Penzance
Numbered 11/12

4. Mousehole
Numbered 11/12

5. Padstow
Numbered 11/12

6. Falmouth
Numbered 11/12

7. Newquay
Numbered 11/12

8. St Ives
Numbered 11/12

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Title from cover of box.

The images in this collection are derived from sketches and notations in a series of sketch books produced in 1988 when Jacks lived in Cornwall. Each etching is drawn and printed using a variety of techniques, including sugar-life, relief, intaglio, and hard ground.

Reference:
The Artist's books of Robert Jacks / essay and catalogue by Peter Anderson. Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009.

Sydney : Robert Jacks and Sydney Print Studio, 1989

All prints signed and dated by artist.

Each sheet imprinted lower right: "Sydney Print Studio" logo; watermark lower right "BFK Rives France"