MELBOURNE FROM THE RIVER, c.1924
ETHEL SPOWERS
colour woodcut
19.0 x 22.5 cm
signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image
possibly: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne, Spring 1924, no. 235 (as ‘Town from the River’)
Exhibition of Works by Ethel Spowers, The New Gallery, Melbourne, 4 – 15 August 1925, cat. 36 (another example)
‘Art Notes. Watercolours by Miss Ethel Spowers’, The Age, Melbourne, 4 August 1925, p. 9
‘The Studio. Miss Spowers’ Watercolours’, The Australasian, Melbourne, 8 August 1925, p. 44
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. ES A/7, p. 189