Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951)

Chinaman’s Gardens, c.1933

linocut on paper

19.0 x 23.5 cm (image)
24.0 x 26.5 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof
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 Prints, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, opened 3 August 1933, cat. 5 (another example)
Print, Drawing and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 46 (another example., as ‘Chinamen’s Garden’)
Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 22 (another example., as ‘Chinamen’s Garden’)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.27, p. 132 (another example, as ‘Hillside’)
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. DB22, p. 158 (illus., another example as ‘Chinamen’s Garden’)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 202 (illus., another example)

Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaid