Eveline Syme (1888 - 1961)

THE YARRA AT WARRANDYTE, 1931

colour linocut on paper

21.5 x 15.0 cm (image)
29.0 x 22.5 cm (sheet)

edition: 9/25
signed, dated, inscribed with title and numbered below image: The Yarra at Warrandyte 9/25 E W Syme 1931

Private collection
Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in March 1988

Water Colours and Lino–Cuts by E. W. Syme, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne, 18 August – 1 September 1931, cat. 28 (another example)
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne, 5 – 16 April 1932, cat. 22 (another example)
Linocuts and Wood Engravings by E. W. Syme, Arts and Crafts Society’s Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 16 May 1936, cat. 12 (another example)
Spowers & Syme, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 August 2021 – 12 February 2022, then touring to: Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, 26 February – 29 May 2022; Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 16 July – 16 October 2022; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 3 December 2022 – 12 February 2023; and QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, 11 March – 4 June 2023

Streeton, A., ‘Miss Syme’s Exhibition’, The Argus, Melbourne, 18 August 1931, p. 8
Streeton, A., ‘Display of Lino Cuts’, The Argus, Melbourne, 5 April 1932, p. 9
Bell, G., ’20 Prints by Miss Syme’, The Sun–News Pictorial, Melbourne, 5 May 1936, p. 15
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. ESy11, pl. 42, pp. 47 (illus., another example), 182 (illus., another example)
Noordhuis–Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers & Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 77, 93
Miekus, T., ‘New exhibition puts spotlight on the two women who changed our art scene’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 14 July 2022 (illus., another example)
McDonald, J., ‘Catch this trailblazing art show while you still can’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 19 January 2023 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney