Nocturne, Wynyard Square, 1932
Dorrit Black
linocut on paper
22.5 x 15.0 cm (image)
25.0 x 19.0 cm (sheet)
signed in image lower right with artist’s monogram
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
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 33 (another example, as ‘Wynyard Square’)
Dorrit Black (Retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 25 October – 3 November 1945, cat. 51 (another example, as ‘Wyngard [sic.] Nocturne’)
Print, Drawing and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 43 (another example, as ‘Reconstructions, Wynward Square’)
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. 55 (another example)
Art Deco and works from the period, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 16 June – 14 July 1980 (another example)
Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 30 April – 30 May 1987, cat. 10 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 13)
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 January – 11 March 1990, cat. 13 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 8 (another example)
Nocturne: images of night and darkness from colonial to contemporary, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 23 Apil – 16 June 2002 (another example)
Colour, Rhythm, Design – wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March – 11 July 2010 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 16)
Professor Sadler, Japan and Australian modernism, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, 3 April – 24 July 2011 (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)
Tatlock Miller, H (ed.)., Manuscripts: A Miscellany of Art and Letters, The Hassell Press, Adelaide, no. 3, November 1932, p. 37 (illus., another example)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.16, pl. 24, pp. 63 (illus. another example), 64, 131
Lebovic, J., Masterpieces of Australian printmaking, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1987, cat. 10, pp. 12, 13 (illus., another example)
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. DB16, p. 156 (illus., another example)
Kolenberg, H., and Ryan, A., Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, cat. 61, p. 72 (illus., another example)
Thomas, S., 'A wider vision: Dorrit Black's Modern Art Centre', Art and Australia, Sydney, vol. 44, no. 1, September – November 2006, pp. 98 (illus., another example), 99
Tornatore – Loong, M. C & Ajioka, C., (eds.), Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler & modernism, 1920 – 30s, University of Sydney Press, Sydney, 2011, cat. 20, pp. 32, 40 (illus., another example), 136
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 132, 189 (illus., another example), 310
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 202 (illus., another example)