Collection 3: Roderick Shaw drawings for 'The Flying Pieman' ballet and related material

sub-fonds

1942-1993

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Design Drawings, Photographs, Textual Records, Clippings

9669179

21 drawings - 31 cm x 38 cm or smaller - watercolours
3 drawings - 24.5 cm x 34.5 cm or smaller - pen, pencil, ink
2 photographs - black and white
Textual material

Roderick Malcolm Shaw (1915-1993) was born at Drummoyne, N.S.W. He was educated at Sydney High and at East Sydney National Art School. In 1935 he was a foundation member of the Windsor Group of Sydney artists who painted in the Hawkesbury region. In 1939 Shaw and Dick Edwards established The Barn on the Hill Press at Woolloomooloo. During World War II he was a ‘Camoufleur’ with the R.A.A.F. After the War, Shaw continued working with Edwards and became a founder of the Studio of Realist Art.

Reference
Library correspondence file

By descent to Christine Shaw, daughter of Roderick and Frances Shaw.

File 1
Roderick Shaw 'Flying Pieman' illustrations and other pictorial material

File 2
Roderick Shaw and Frances Shaw papers

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Christine Shaw
Approval for reproduction required: from copyright holder
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Christine Shaw