Music, 1927 – 28
Dorrit Black
colour linocut
24.0 x 21.0 cm (image)
30.5 x 24.5 cm (sheet)
signed with initials lower left: D.B
numbered in margin upper left
Estate of the artist, Adelaide
Thence by descent
Helen Finlayson (née Black), Adelaide, 1951 [the artist's sister]
Margaret Michelmore (née Finlayson), Adelaide, a gift from the above
Estate of the above, Adelaide
First Exhibition of British Lino–cuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 4 – 27 July 1929, cat. 49 (another example)
Painting and Sculpture by A Group of Seven, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 26 March – 5 April 1930, cat. 6 (another example)
Work by Members of the Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria, Town Hall, Melbourne, 13 – 24 October 1931 (another example)
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 31 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Melbourne, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 14 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 50 (another example)
Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1992; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1992 – 1 March 1993; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 19 March – 16 May 1993; and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 17 (another example)
Modernism 1900 – 1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 July – 25 September 1994 (another example)
Review: Works by Women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 8 March – 4 June 1995 (another example)
Modern Australia Women: Paintings and Prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 November 2000 – 25 February 2001, then touring to: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney and Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria (another example)
The Story of Australian Printmaking, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 30 March – 3 June 2007 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 9 (another example)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
Modern impressions; Australian prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September 2016 – January 2017 (another example)
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 June – 8 September 2019 (another example)
Dangerously Modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890 – 1940, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 May – 7 September 2025, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 October 2025 – 1 February 2026 (another example)
Claude Flight letter to Dorrit Black, 6 July 1929
‘Art & linoleum cut out pictures with umbrella ribs', The Sun, Sydney, 16 March 1930, p. 8 (illus., another example)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.1, pl. 5, pp. 25, 27 (illus., another example), 131
Waldmann, A., Project 39 – Women's Imprint, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1982, n.p.
Edwards et al., Review: Works by Women from the Permanent Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, n.p.
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB1, pl. 31, pp. 42 (illus., another example), 66, 152 (illus., another example)
Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism, Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, p. 142 (illus., another example)
Hylton, J., Modern Australian Women: Paintings & Prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 25 (illus., another example), 121
Butler, R., Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885 – 1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 205 (illus., another example)
Campbell, H., Colour, Rhythm, Design: Wood & Lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, pp. 2, 16 (illus., another example)
Tornatore – Loong, M. C & Ajioka, C., (eds.), Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler & modernism, 1920 –30s, University of Sydney Press, Sydney, 2011, cat. 19, p. 136
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 79, 178 (illus., another example), 310
Grishin, S., Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2015, pl. 23.4, p. 232 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 9 (illus., another example), 148, 149 (illus., another example), 154 (illus., another example), 199 (illus., another example)
Samuel et al., Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2019, pp. 15, 16 (illus.), 39, 40, 49, 70, 74, 90 (illus.) and illus. back cover (another example)
Freak, E., (ed.) et. al., Dangerously Modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890 – 1940, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2025, pp. 246, 247 (illus., another example)