Ken Searle (born 1951)

Newtown II, 1999

oil on canvas

110.0 x 303.0 cm
113.0 x 305.5 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: Ken Searle 1999

Watters Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 2003

Ken Searle Newtown Revisited, Watters Gallery, Sydney, 19 October – 6 November 1999
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 8 December 2000 – 11 February 2001, and touring to: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 17 March – 13 May 2001; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Queensland, 15 June – 5 August 2001; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, 18 August – 14 October 2001; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, 2 November 2001 – 27 January 2002; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 22 February – 21 April 2002; and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, 10 May – 7 July 2002

McDonald, J., et al, Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901 – 2001, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2001, p. 97 (illus.)

Newtown, 1978, oil on canvas, 109.5 x 315.5 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, gift of Patrick White