Russell Drysdale (1912 - 1981)

STUDY FOR THE COUNCILOR’S HOUSE, 1948

watercolour, ink and pencil on paper

24.0 x 30.5 cm

signed lower right: Russell Drysdale

Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 15 September – 8 October 1969, cat.23
The Drawings of Russell Drysdale: 1980 Perth Survey of Drawing, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and touring other major galleries throughout Australia, April – October 1980 (label attached verso)
The Artists of Hill End: Art, Life and Landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 July – 17 September 1995, and touring to Bathurst, New England, Broken Hill and Ballarat (label attached verso)

Klepac, L., The Drawings of Russell Drysdale, Art Gallery of Western Australia,1980, cat.64, P64, p.93 (illus.)

Councillor's House 1948, oil, ink and pencil on board, 79.0 x 100.0cm, formerly Mertz Collection, University of Texas, illus. in Klepac, L., Russell Drysdale, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, pl.94, p.279